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...form rooms or class rooms where there was no privacy and a good deal of opportunity for bullying . . . The games worship was at its height . . . No one was considered anything unless he was good at games, and the result was to create an inferiority complex in the unathletic...
Whether or not poor athlete Attlee had an inferiority complex, the mild popularity he found at Oxford came as something of a surprise. Untainted by university radicalism, he took a modern history degree in 1904. Attlee remembers that he had "fallen under the spell of the Renaissance. I admired strong and ruthless rulers. I professed ultra-Tory opinions...
...Enthusiastic. According to "Georges Escoulin" (a pen name said to conceal the identity of a well-known Catholic writer who has traveled in America), the chief difficulty of U.S. Roman Catholics is an inferiority complex. Because the church arrived late in the U.S., he says, the big problem for the immigrating Catholic was to get himself accepted. For this reason he has had to show, "and prove by his whole behavior, that. . . he is devoted to 'The American Way,' that he has adopted it, and will, in turn, get others to adopt it." He has had no easy...
Many of man's miseries, said Freud, are the result of pressure from his childhood repressions. Most of these, he held, center around the "Oedipus Complex," a boy's jealousy of his mother's love for his father and his desire to get the old man out of the way so that he can have her all to himself. The Freudian prescription: reduce the pressure from the unconscious by getting the patient to remember and understand what he was repressing. From the Christian viewpoint man's misery and evil are the result of Original...
...what make scientists wildly excited about the new computers. Virtually every branch of science is surrounded by beetling walls of unscalable figures. The hazy paths of electrons whirling around a nucleus, the speeding flow of air over an airplane's wing, the structure and reactions of complex chemical molecules-all these involve continents and oceans of figures, figures, figures. Sometimes a simple answer (a small number, or even a yes or a no) would cost a lifetime or 100 lifetimes of human calculation...