Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Neurotic Kultur. So far as his biographer-friend knows, Adrian had but one sexual experience with a woman, a prostitute; but it leaves him with a disease that alternately retards and heightens his work and leaves him a senile wreck at the end. Perhaps the best and most readable section of Faustus describes Adrian's years in a rustic Bavarian retreat near Munich. Mann's description of Munich's cultural and pseudo-intellectual crowd between wars, and their stiff-necked, neurotic Kultur helps explain how an Austrian fanatic got them to eat out of his hand...
...Fabricated Heart." ("So normal and well-rounded, but she sends her dreams to the laundry.") It has lyrics by John LaTouche, music by Paul Bowles and features the voices of Libby Holman and Josh White on the sound track. The girl in the case is that familiar type of sexual idealist who later becomes a rampant realist...
sublimation. Harnessing an Iddish desire into a decent disguise (e.g., taking out an unconscious sexual or aggressive drive in work, play...
After investigating many patients, Freud decided that the basis of almost all personality conflicts is "sexual." He used the word in a very broad sense to include all kinds of love and pleasure, from eating to a fondness for abstract thought. His emphasis on sex caused bitter breaks with two of his most famous followers: Carl Jung, who was sniffy about Freud's emphasis on "sexuality" in infants, and Alfred Adler, who believed that a "drive for power" was equal in importance with "sexual urges...
...consumer public continue to write us for copies of The Kinsey Report, under the mistaken notion that it is distributed free by the Kinsey Distilling Corp. We wish to advise them (especially those who forward us labels from Kinsey Whiskey or Kinsey Gin) that their request for copies of Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male (popularly known as The Kinsey Report) should be directed to their local bookseller or to the publisher...