Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nearly every psychologist is forced to modify Freud's theories of sexual determinism. . . . Your Medicine editor exposes nothing but his own folly when he equates Jung and Adler with Freud as the "Big Three" of psychoanalysis, and writes of the Freudian "monotheism" as though it were a slightly faded joke...
...everything from a glass of brandy to a paintbrush, is a virtuoso of the fumble. Ed Gardner, who rather suggests a ravaged Randolph Scott, is as agreeable to see as he is to hear. His specialty is straight verbal misfires such as "satisfied public accountant," his proud claim to sexual "maggotism" and his wistful reference to his Harvard days ("good old Eli"). But he also delivers a permanent description of a moneybag: "If he can't take it with him I guarantee...
...persuade him to face them. This often does a lot of good. The true-blue Freudians have only scorn for what Dr. Brill calls "societies and individuals who offer the public better, cheaper and quicker psychoanalyses." A true Freudian is a monotheist and believes in one God, libido, the sexual urge, as the dominant force in human existence. He regards the school of Jung as pantheistic heretics (they believe that libido includes other drives besides sex); ditto for the school of Adler (which invented the inferiority complex...
...woman who does not really enjoy housekeeping but persists in "dutiful or neurotic drudgery" and complains to everybody about it. Freudian explanation: she is probably sexually maladjusted, since people should like work, which is a form of sexual satisfaction, besides satisfying an "instinct to master" the environment...
...something about the Table. Every Anglican prayerbook contains the Table of Kindred and Affinity*−"Wherein whosoever are related are forbidden in Scripture and our laws to marry together." These mari, tal prohibitions (drawn up in 1560 by Archbishop of Canterbury Matthew Parker) were based mainly on the famed sexual rules & regulations of Leviticus XVIII. Specifically, the Table banned marriage with brothers-and sisters-in-law, nephews and nieces...