Word: masochistic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brothers will discuss why men get tattooed ("an ancient symbol of manliness, used by masculine men as an amulet, or by feminine men to attract attention"), why people are late ("rebellion against authority"), why some wives are extravagant ("She really wants to be refused; she's a masochist"). Not among the questions so far: why women become psychologists...
...Masochist, or Son of God? This relaxed gathering in Omaha last week was the latest meeting of a group of 38 men and women, mostly Methodist ministers and their wives who have been getting together about once a month for the past two years. They began when a church-going Omaha pediatrician named Dr. Charles Tompkins decided that while ministers and psychiatrists were trying to do much the same job, the psychiatrists were doing it better. He persuaded his medical-school classmate, Dr. G. Alexander ("Bob") Young Jr., who became a psychosomaticist after the war, to take on a group...
...easy to get his clerical couples talking about their aggressions, repressions and sexual problems. Even a little theology was kicked around-with some of the inanity that is often a byproduct of the mixture of Scripture and Freud. One meeting considered the question of whether Jesus Christ was a masochist. (Yes, said Bob Young: he denied himself marriage and made his life one long bid for suffering. No, said the ministers: men crucified him because they were not yet ready for the Son of God and his principle of love...
...Pandora and Flying Dutchman legends are merely fantasies. When interwoven, somewhat crudely, yet credibly, with a collection of themes like Greek ideas of tragedy, and masochist thoughts of self torture and sadism, they make a fantastic and thoroughly fascinating picture...