Word: soul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Freudian View. Through most of the Christian era, the healing of the mind was considered part of the realm of the soul. The Enlightenment abolished the soul. Its p'ace was taken, in the minds of millions, by reason, which stood atop a quaking pile of instincts...
Jungrans often say that after a patient has been cured of a neurosis in Freudian analysis, his "soul has been sterilized." Says Jung: "The neurosis contains the soul of the sick person, or at least a considerable part of it, and if the neurosis could be taken out like a decayed tooth, in the rationalistic way, then the patient would have gained nothing and lost something very important, much as a thinker who loses his doubt of the truth of his conclusions, or a moral man who loses his temptations . . . The individual [must] choose his own way consciously and with...
...home country. His pride in his own success makes him regard other British businessmen a bit scornfully. Says he: "The men at the top in this country don't work hard enough. I am the greatest living exponent of enthusiasm in this country, and I want every living soul to be sold on the idea of working hard for Britain, just as my salesmen are enthused by me to sell my biscuits." As a Canadian soldier in World War I, Weston spent his furloughs studying the British baking industry. When he went home to Toronto he took...
...Hunebelle's Philippine. The pretty young thing of 20 who tells the story manages to seduce a man of more than 50 after failing with his wife. "Had anyone objected," the heroine declares, that loving "leads to hell, I would have replied that one wins one's soul in losing...
With such pressures already being put on education, a statement such as Mr Pusey's was needed. It is a warning to the private college or university not to sell its soul to business, and an admonition to industry to pay its way without expecting to formulate university policy in return...