Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perhaps one of the modern classics of autobiographical pornography, Frank Harris' "My Life and Loves," is on the "Inferno" shelves. The four volume affair is little more than a detailed chronicle of the author's sexual experiences, from the first grade on Benvenuto Cellini's "Autobiography." on the other hand, has a place in the "Inferno principally because of the fine edition...
...fragments published in the Advocate dealt with reminiscences of sexual relationships by a prisoner...
...spokesman added the official Roman Catholic caution on psychoanalysis: only "its excesses and deformations" must be avoided. These specifically include the Freudian's habit of labeling all human virtues "sublimated sexual emotions" (Monsignor Felici, in his article, had noted the same evil). Concluded the Vatican: "Should psychoanalytic treatment be judged harmful to the spiritual health of the faithful, the church would not hesitate to take adequate steps to brand it as such. Nothing, so far, indicates that such steps are about to be taken...
...woman transformed . . . awakened for the first time," and he feels the same awakening in himself. But he cannot escape "a state of curious despair ... I had seen my place empty under the sun, and I had a feeling that it was always so." He finds that his resistance to sexual temptation, of which he has been proud, was really nothing to brag about, after all-"The truth was that nothing had been offered me." The role of a white-collar Faust, in short, had its drawbacks...
...reason is that the symptoms of maladaptive behavior first crop up-in the school. Almost all the delinquents studied indulged in some misconduct at school, ranging from defiance, stubborness, and lying to stealing and sexual misconduct. The Gluecks suggest that the school could function as the "litmus paper of personality and character maladaption, reflecting early in the child's growth the acid test of his failure in his first attempts to cope with the problems of life...