Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expected that they will fit into a pattern of stable married life without a struggle . . . What comes cheaply is not valued highly. But even more important, when a man knowingly deviates from the moral law, his ability to resist further temptation is weakened. Habit and the memory of sin are not easily effaced...
Speaking in Memorial Church on "What Men Hate to Hear" the Bishop described the world as "more intent on exploitation and making money than on service or doing a good job." He felt it was time man realized that "the wage of sin is death...
...that he can have her all to himself. The Freudian prescription: reduce the pressure from the unconscious by getting the patient to remember and understand what he was repressing. From the Christian viewpoint man's misery and evil are the result of Original Sin. The prescription: faith in Jesus Christ as Redeemer. The cures are obviously the same thing, says Sanders, "with Christ in the role of the Great Psychiatrist...
...psychoanalyst tries to rescue his patient from bondage to his unconscious by using the phenomenon called "transference," in which the analyst takes the place of the parent against which the patient's "sin" is directed. Sanders sees
...glorify their plight; they are, he says, mere self-deceivers. Actually Edward, who can love nobody, and Lavinia, whom nobody can love, share a common bond of isolation, and will be far happier together than apart. Celia Coplestone comes to the specialist, too, but with a sense of sin and a capacity for humility and atonement: for her, salvation, no matter how arduous, will be necessary. The play ends two years later with another cocktail party, showing the Chamberlaynes adjusted and telling of Celia's death by crucifixion while working among heathen savages...