Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...married couples took part, but their identities were not known to the researchers-only to an intermediary. On separate occasions, in a suitably private room, each volunteer couple attached wires and electrodes to themselves. These were connected with the scientists' recording instruments in another room. Then they had sexual intercourse. Before, during and after intercourse, the instruments diligently recorded the heart and breathing rates, made electrocardiograms of each person. The scientists' findings, not altogether surprising: ¶ In both man and woman the normal heart rate of 70 per minute soars to 170 a minute. The rate...
Purpose of this scientific invasion of the bedroom, according to the experimenters: "Merely to collect facts . . ." One possible benefit: to help physicians advise victims of heart attacks and those with heart failure, as well as victims of strokes, on their capacity to engage safely in sexual relations...
...Appendage. It was not surprising, in an adventure so heady, intense and trackless, that dissension developed among the explorers. Largely because he thought that inferiority feelings and power drives were more important than sexuality in emotional growth, Adler broke with Freud in 1911 amid wrangling and recriminations; they were antagonists until Adler's death in 1937. Another reason for Adler's defection was Freud's immoderate admiration and affection for Carl Jung, the only non-Jew (aside from Jones) in the inner circle, and the man clearly designated by Freud as the heir apparent to the couch...
Sigmund Freud held that the nature of man is essentially biological; man is born with certain instinctual drives. Most notable: the drive toward self-gratification. Basic mental energy, or libido, is equated with sexual energy by making the word "sex" stand for all pleasure...
Infant's first search for gratification is limited to release of hunger tension-oral phase. If there is no nipple handy, he puts thumb in mouth. Next comes satisfaction from defecation-anal phase. Third, pleasure from sensation in sexual parts-phallic phase. (Association of sexual gratification with reproduction-genital phase-does not come until sexual maturity.) Beginning about age two, the child's emotional attachment to mother leads to wishes to displace father-Oedipal feelings (the older, more rigid concept of an Oedipus complex is now frowned upon...