Word: victimization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enforce conformity. "By the vote of a neighborhood or block meeting assembled and dominated by Party members, any 'unproductive' member of society can be expelled from his place of residence and ordered to live at a distance of not less than 100 kilometers." Since the exiled victim would not be able to obtain a job or a place to live without approval from the state, the prospect of such banishment is a terrifying threat...
...Peace. When a fact is as uni versal as love, death or anxiety, it becomes difficult to measure and classify. Man would not be human were he not anxious. Is his anxiety today really greater than ever before ? different from Job's? Or is modern man simply a victim of distorted historical vision that always sees the pres ent as bigger and worse than the past...
...discovery; Copernicus and Galileo's tink ering with the universe, removing the earth and man from its center; the industrial revolution. But in a sense, the 20th century U.S. is the culmination of all these upheavals?itself the product of a gigantic migration, itself both champion and victim of the industrial revolution, itself faced with the necessity not only of accepting a new universe but of exploring...
...instincts developed into drives only under the whiplash of anxiety. To Sullivan, devotee of the "power motive." which drives man to pursue security, anxiety arose from the infant's apprehension of disapproval. And Sullivan had one significant insight: experiences that create anxiety not only limit the victim's activities, but also actually set limits to his awareness and hence to his learning ability...
Dread of dirt (mysophobia) goes hand in overwashed hand with the cleanliness compulsion. The victim must carry out his cleansing routine even though he knows it is unreasonable. Otherwise, he finds himself the prisoner of intolerable anxiety. The cleanliness compulsion commonly arises from conflict involving a strict and perfectionist parent. The victim begins by being simply overneat and fussy about cleanliness. Then he gets into conflict with all the people around him who do not comply with his compulsive standards. His compulsion may drive him to excessive washing of his body, of clothes, and even doorknobs. (One legendary American tycoon...