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Many notable European intellectuals regarded America as the epitome of a modernity they feared and scorned, from Friedrich Nietzsche to Sigmund Freud, Frances Trollope to Charles Dickens. There were exceptions, of course. Karl Marx voiced his outspoken support of the Union in its struggle against the Confederacy, and a few social democratic and liberal intellectuals—in the European sense—expressed favorable views of the United States. But on the whole, negative views predominated among Europe’s elites, regardless of country or political conviction...
...Britannica Ultimate Reference Suite 2004 DVD With more than 100,000 articles on everything from alpaca to Zionism, this encyclopedia ($70) is by far the most comprehensive. I especially enjoyed original articles (commissioned for print editions eons ago) by the likes of Sigmund Freud and Harry Houdini. To my surprise, however, I preferred the online version, at britannica.com It is easier to search and has many of the videos and photos featured on the DVD. It also deftly integrates thousands of external links (reviewed by Britannica editors). A one-year subscription costs...
...decades of the 20th century, nature held sway over nurture in most fields. In the wake of World War I, however, three men recaptured the social sciences for nurture: John B. Watson, who set out to show how the conditioned reflex, discovered by Ivan Pavlov, could explain human learning; Sigmund Freud, who sought to explain the influence of parents and early experiences on young minds; and Franz Boas, who argued that the origin of ethnic differences lay with history, experience and circumstance, not physiology and psychology...
Rosen compared Prince’s model of the mind to that of Sigmund Freud...
...expressionist Edvard Munch. Entitled "Theme and Variation," it features such masterpieces as The Scream and Madonna. Simultaneously, works from the museum's newly created photographic collection are also on display, plus an exhibition of the work of American artist Robert Longo, whose very Viennese subject is the apartment of Sigmund Freud. Due to the extreme light sensitivity of the artworks, there will be no permanent exhibition of the museum's treasures. However, one of its most famous pieces, Dürer's 1502 watercolor Hare, will be shown for the first time in decades in a fall exhibition of that...