Word: womb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mind had to grapple with." Like other firstborns, he suffered the pain of having to share his mother with "intruders" (younger brothers and sisters). Author Jones has a lot of tricky unraveling to do for this tangled period, and comes out at the end with a neat ball of womb-symbols, erotic fantasies and thwarted infantile greed. Of this last, "traces . . . remained in [Freud's] later life in the form of slightly undue anxiety about catching trains." This is perhaps an understatement: Freud liked to be on the platform a good hour before the symbolic breast, pulled...
Puzzled, the researchers asked Mrs. McK. whether she was a twin. No less puzzled by their apparent second sight, Mrs. McK. replied that she had had a twin brother, who died when three months old. That explained it, they figured: in the womb there had been a connection between the arteries of the fraternal twins, and Mrs. McK. had picked up some of her brother's blood-making cells...
...15th century the church had approved the practice), did countless sketches and cross sections, working to get just the right swell of a bicep, the right organ in the right place. The Metropolitan shows a precise study by Leonardo of a baby in a womb. Raphael spent long hours dissecting; Curator Mayor shows how his later figures lose their smooth look and take on bone structure and strong, adult muscles. Not until 1543, when the Belgian Anatomist Andreas Vesalius published his book of superb anatomical drawings, did artists have a text...
...this point, she said: "I used to be part of a 'oneness,', and now I am separated." Dr. Kelsey told her that as he counted ten she would find herself back at the "oneness . . ." As he reached ten, she said ("quite calmly and positively"): "This is the womb. There is something beating in me and through me-my mother's heart. I can't see-and it feels as if I've got no mouth." He asked her in what position she found herself. She answered, "Curled up," and she "immediately assumed the fetal position...
...bachelor of 25 suffered from two obsessions: he could not don a garment which had to be pulled on over his head, and could not work successfully with his hands. He, too, recalled unpleasant experiences in the womb. His mother told Dr. Kelsey about his birth: the head had been delivered with only a midwife present, and then his shoulders caused an obstruction. "Hence the infant remained, with just his head born, for an hour or so until the doctor arrived." Though the mother insisted that she had never told the patient about this, he re-enacted his birth difficulties...