Word: trauma
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From now on when we have a sexual encounter, we have one more thing to ponder-is it out of "hostility, mystery, risk, illusion, revenge and the reversal of a trauma or frustration?" Who cares...
...Little good comes out of the six-week period of trauma over House selection that we have now," he said...
Stoller, who has been studying gender identity and sexual perversion, concludes that the same psychic factors found in perversion are also found in the sexual lives of most people: hostility, mystery, risk, illusion, revenge and the reversal of a trauma or frustration. "We try to make the outlandish folk function as scapegoats for the rest of us, but anyone-analyst or other-who collects erotic thoughts knows that many citizens, avowedly heterosexual, conspicuously normal . . . are also filled with hatred and wishes, if not plans, to harm others." The difference between normal person and pervert, he feels, is one of degree...
...movie rapidly becomes cloying. The mystery's conclusion--where the last piece in the puzzle is fit into place--is a little too cleverly predictable. Through hypnosis, Freud finds that the secret of Holmes' personality and the reason for his cocaine addiction is explained by a childhood trauma. What else could one expect in a movie about Freud as precious as this one has become, but a reenactment of the Oedipal drama...
Kennedy avoided further trauma when he happened to meet Michael L. Kennedy '80 struggling through the line at Memorial Hall. The two Kennedys have not met since registration, but Michael A. says Michael L. is never far from his mind...