Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...subjective guilt, he added: "Feelings of guilt are not the same as objective guilt." To a psychiatrist, said Dr. Nelken, the feelings, rather than the guilt itself, are the important thing. The panel began to edge toward the idea that priests are primarily interested in a man's sin, and psychiatrists are interested in his attitude toward himself...
...patient goes on feeling guilty even after absolution has been given and the guilt has been objectively washed away. Then, said Hurley, "we recognize that it is essential that we send them to the expert [i.e., the psychiatrist]." Nonguilt Is Not Enough. Father White broached the Big Guilt-Original Sin...
...Freud himself found it necessary to postulate a kind of original sin," he said, referring to the father-slaying, mother-marrying impulses of the Oedipus complex. "Man does, in fact, belong to a guilty race, and that by inheritance...
...agente secreto federal), high-fidelity (alta fidelidad), and 3-D (pelicula cinematográfica tridimensional). He had to translate babbittry (concepto de la moral y las costumbres de la clase media), flying saucer (platillo volador o volante), Hoosier (natural o habitante del estado de Indiana), and water wagon (sin tomar bebidas alcohólicas). Even some old words caused trouble. In no bilingual dictionary, for instance, could Williams find a definition of solitary confinement; he came across it by accident in a magazine. Its Spanish equivalent: celda de castigo...
...like Babbitt, this figure should become a word in the English language, a Wayde will denote a man whose tragedy is lack of roots, whose sin is trying to be something...