Word: stekel
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...martyrdom. Where dissent is harshly silenced, spectacular means of protest may be needed; within the ample means and methods of U.S. democracy, a human voice means more than a human torch. "The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause," Psychoanalyst Wilhelm Stekel once said, "while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly...
...something of suffering himself. By stifling his own physical desires, he contracted a savage skin disease of the same type that used to rack medieval ascetics. Neither its origin nor its cure is known, and it is commonly called "The Saint's Disease." "My dear sir," Psychoanalyst Wilhelm Stekel once scolded him, "you are trying to live out of your century. Your body is suffering from remorse of spirit." It was Kazantzakis' belief that only through soul-searing struggle could man approach God. To his eye, the Francis of legend was too mild to be a saint...
...greatest defectors, Alfred Adler and Carl Gustav Jung, had left him long before, along with Wilhelm Stekel. In the 19203 they were followed by Otto Rank (who proved to be suffering from manic-depressive psychosis that had gone unsuspected in the inner circle of analysts), by Wilhelm Reich, and finally by the fawning Ferenczi, whose lifelong emotional troubles were compounded at the end by pernicious anemia and organic brain damage. Through it all, Freud held firmly to the line he had laid down: "We have only one aim and one loyalty-to psychoanalysis." When Stekel big-heartedly attempted a late...
...heirs, so Freud's brilliant but obstinate, vain and hypersensitive character seems to have shaped the psychoanalytic movement. There were squabbles, rivalries, accusations. In 1910 began a series of famed apostasies of disciples who refused to accept Freud's theories unconditionally. First Adler deserted, then Stekel, and finally "Crown Prince" Carl Gustav Jung himself. Biographer Jones suggests that the dissidents were those who still felt "obliged to perpetuate the rebelliousness of childhood...
...Moses in the Church of San Pietro in Vincoli. Freud "used to flinch at the angry gaze as if he were one of the disobedient mob . . . 'But later, Freud promoted himself and identified himself with Moses. Thus he was able, writing in 1914 after the refections of Adler, Stekel and Jung, to put a new psychoanalytic interpretation on the 400-year-old statue. It did not he held, show Moses freshly descended from the Mount and about to chastise the Israelites for dancing about their golden calf. Rather, Freud read it as showing Moses deciding not to hasten after...