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...dream man needed to earn more money than she did--50% more, to be exact. He had to have a wide and varied social circle drawn from the city's upper echelons. Last, he had to be in therapy--not just any form of therapy, mind you, but classical Freudian therapy. I was flummoxed. Because I liked the woman, I set to work remaking myself according to her outline, but midway through my self-improvement drive, she dropped me cold. I was trying too hard, she said. My question to her was, Why would any man slave for riches, cultivate...
...just in housing projects but in offices and malls and schools) that violence of any kind - including solemn execution - has become merely a part of our cultural routine and joins, in our minds, the passing parade of stupidity/psychosis/chaos/entertainment that Americans seem to like, or have come to deserve. In Freudian terms, the once forceful (and patriarchal) American Superego (arguably including the authority of law, of the presidency, of the military, etc.) has collapsed into a great dismal swamp...
...Tampa Bay player, in headlines 2 Santa __, Calif. 3 Word in a recent Clinton Freudian slip 4 Plugging away 5 A network that has agreed to hire more minorities 6 Hope-Crosby destination 7 "__ Bill" Bradley 8 Nation tightening controls on the Net 9 Marked with streaks 10 Fed. that dissolved in 1991 12 Med. school course 17 Bottommost 19 Osama bin __ (possible link to suspected Algerian terrorists) 21 Interneuron has sued A.H.P. over __/phen 22 Debunked mentalist Geller 24 TV's Jennings 27 Katmandu tongue 29 Baseballer at State of the Union 33 Clinton would require a photo...
Einstein himself resisted all efforts to explore his psyche, rejecting, for example, a Freudian analyst's offer to put him on the couch. But curiosity about him continues, as evidenced by the unrelenting tide of Einstein books Amazon.com lists some 100 in print...
...Perhaps we should instead see the seeming incomprehensibility of beauty as an invitation to further study; Scarry has a slim volume on this subject out right now, entitled On Beauty and Being Just. In Dreaming by the Book, she asks how literature instructs our imaginations. This is not a Freudian exercise, but instead an ambitious look at how words guide us in the act of imagination. But any attempted explanation of one of the most mysterious and wonderful habits of the human mind must end in confusion and disappointment. Scarry's high and beautiful ambitions can only be partially realized...