Word: subconsciouses
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A plot synopsis of The Section Man is somewhat difficult: it contains one hundred and twenty-four major characters; it is told from fifty-seven points of view; the narrative voice is sometimes internal and subconscious, sometimes omniscient; time shifts from the present to the future to the prehistoric past...
His sculptures happen to look something like beasts, birds and people, but any resemblance is pretty much coincidental. Convinced that "art school makes you think rather than feel," Chadwick taught himself, and approaches his art much as an action painter would. He tries to suspend conscious thought in developing his...
Food for Frustration. Far more frequently, overeating is the result of a psychological compulsion. It may be fostered by frustration, depression, insecurity-or, in children, simply by the desire to stop an anxious mother's nagging. Some families place undue emphasis on food: conversations center on it, and rich...
Huxley, in the second of seven lectures on "What a Piece of Work Is Man," contrasted the positions of Freud and F.W.H. Myers. The latter, he said, dealt with the positive, creative side of the unconscious, while Freud, having a medical background, was concerned more with disease and the negative...
The idea of "possession" persisted in Western thought down to the 19th century, Huxley noted. At that time it was replaced by the concept of a "dynamic subconscious," which motivated an individual from within. But he went on to point out that, in subjective terms, such moments of inspiration actually...