Word: angst
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ground, snow in the forecast. Fenway Park, Wrigley Field, Yankee Stadium closed for the season. Faced with such spiritual deprivation, Cato fell on his sword and Ishmael shipped out to sea. Baseball buffs have a better way of alleviating off-season angst. Like fundamentalists who find solace in Scripture, they take down their own holy writ entitled The Baseball Encyclopedia. Impervious to time and temperature, the good book returns readers to baseball's Jurassic era, when teams were owned by individuals rather than conglomerates, when the game was played on vegetation instead of plastic, when professionals...
...consensus is, plainly, that philosophic and religious Angst is in, the pursuit of happiness, out...the revised psychoanalysis abandons to the clinics and drugs the task of patching up emotional casualties and seeks to lead men to values based upon the truth of the human condition...
...last few weeks, the department's angst has been focused on a particular--and very concrete--issue: money. The department's tenured American history faculty has easy access to substantial summer stipends, and other senior members of the department have come to feel it just isn't fair...
...more significant objection, and one that Roazen points out, lies in the likelihood that not everyone dwells as much as Erikson on the problem of existential definition. It seems more reasonable that we all share the same group of basic pre-occupations--sexuality, existential angst, class consciousness and false consciousness--but in different proportions for different people. Yet Erikson is one step ahead of this objection; as Roazen notes, he is quick to admit that his insights are not comprehensive explanations of personality. Erikson once suggested that modern thinkers should incorporate Freud as a theorist of sex, and Marx...
...twist, for Fassbinder, is to throw havoc into the lives of those who don't cry out, who don't revolt on their own. Fassbinder feels an immense sympathy with the proletariat's specific angst, with the tension of the everyday, and he is angry with a capitalist economic system that perpetuates such banality. Mother Kusters is forced, through a melodramatic super-realism, to the understanding that "having something isn't having all." She questions whether she has been really living or whether "they" (the capitalist manufacturers) have just indoctrinated her into thinking that she was living...