Word: mastering
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Reason for Parting. A perfervid disciple of Carl Jung, who was one of several Freudian disciples to rebel against the master's tutelage, Billinsky introduced his footnote not to illuminate Freud but to correct the official record on Jung's apostasy. The record states that master and student parted for ideological reasons, principally because Jung refused to accept the Freudian tenet that virtually all human emotional problems could be traced to sex. The Jungian school enlarged the definition of the libido into a vital life-force, or Bergsonian élan, of which the sex drive is only...
Image Repaired. By then, the master had begun to suspect that his leading disciple was eager to assume the mantle of successor. That knowledge may have helped widen the breach between them. But the parting came for another reason. "It was my knowledge of Freud's triangle that became a very important factor in my break," Jung told Billinsky. "And then I could not accept Freud's placing authority above the truth. This too led to further problems in our relationship. In retrospect, it looks like it was destined that our relationship should end that...
With Hawkins cheering them on as a Mephisto-like master of ceremonies, they reveled in a horror chamber of life: the whole scene, with pot and pills thrown in as a matter of course. Somehow they emerged on the other side un scathed. Also they began to realize that they had nothing more to learn from Hawkins. A musician they could learn from was Bob Dylan, and when in 1965 he suddenly asked them to join him for a tour, they quickly accepted. "We knew who he was," says Robbie, "but we didn't know he was near as famous...
...some foreign governments and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, he has built his Investors Overseas Services into one of the 20th century's great financial empires. Geneva-based I.O.S. has prospered primarily by selling mutual funds outside the U.S., and Cornfeld has proved himself to be a master salesman. Today he manages some $2.2 billion of other people's money, and his personal fortune amounts to about $140 million. Still a bachelor at 42, Cornfeld is a bizarre figure, part Peter Pan and part Midas. His days and nights are packed with people, planes, horses, telephone calls...
...Brooklyn during the Depression, with a 10?-a-week allowance. Bernie worked nights and weekends to earn trolley fare to school. Later he attended tuition-free Brooklyn College, where he turned socialist and gathered thousands of signatures on Norman Thomas-for-President petitions in 1948. After taking a master's degree at Columbia and spending a year as a social worker in Philadelphia he became a full-time mutual-fund salesman. His performance, Cornfeld readily concedes, was mediocre...