Word: instinctiveness
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AMERICANS have a natural inclination to trust their President; the office makes him a kind of national paterfamilias endowed with special authority and wisdom. In any crisis, the instinct is to feel that the President knows best. When Richard Nixon undertook to send U.S. forces into Cambodia, one could hear the same response from Woonsocket to Wichita: He knows more than we do, he must be right. But does a President really have a great deal of special intelligence that is not available to the well-informed, concerned citizen? Sometimes yes, but often the extra facts a President knows...
...unable to choose happiness over despair because her will has been paralyzed. In Wheelis' view, the cause is not only Craig's outrages but the subtly pervasive spirit of the age. Behaviorists, technophiles and their parrots in the social sciences have overemphasized the lock step of instinct at the expense of free will. For many people, the result is a form of fatalism that destroys belief in the possibility of change...
Despite its incongruities of form, The Desert is an exciting, even a profound modern document. Its philosophical underwriters are Husserl, Heidegger and Ludwig Binswanger, the Swiss psychiatrist who provided a much-needed addendum to Freud. Binswanger gently argued that the undefinable human spirit is as powerful a drive as instinct-if indeed the two theoretical categories can be separated in practice at all. Fusing spirit and instinct, theory and fiction, Wheelis' risky work gives a unique life to Binswanger's philosophical view...
...energy of the novel flow between the lines, around the characters. Ken Russel's direction provides wit and a pictorial opulence that belie the film's lean budget. But Women in Love oscillates too frequently from the shrill to the booming, from woman to man, from instinct to rationale, without once adapting a coherent point of view. In time, the narcissistic opus becomes like its author, who ultimately lived down to Katherine Anne Porter's summation. He gives, she said, "the nightmarish impression of the bisexual snail squeezed into its narrow house making love to itself...
...SENSE, Horovitz relishes the anguish more than any solution. He claims he would burn a play he had written if it contained "the answers." He sees his role as pointing his audience in the right direction, of alarming them, of transforming their instinct into a desire to correct...