Word: psychically
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...cause with "the struggle of homosexuals to attain their liberation in a sexist society." The leaders, including Millett herself, Ti-Grace Atkinson of the National Organization of Women, and Writers Gloria Steinem, Sally Kempton and Susan Brownmiller, issued a prepared statement. Excerpt: "Lesbian is a label used as a psychic weapon to keep women locked into their male-defined 'feminine role.' The essence of that role is that a woman is defined in terms of her relationship to men. A woman is called a lesbian when she functions autonomously. Woman's autonomy is what Women...
What is the remedy for that walking case of psychic diseases, overcivilized man-meaning Cioran, meaning ourselves? One Cioran suggestion is "screaming-rooms" where we can, through howls, relieve "ourselves of the horror of others and of the horror of ourselves...
...intention of surrendering their familiar pale blue, plastic-covered passports. Many of the new expatriates will return, as did most of the writers of the Parisian 1920s. Few give up all contact with the U.S.; some reflect not so much a rejection of the U.S. as a kind of psychic statelessness. Says one American writer now living near Grasse in the south of France: "I will never feel that I fit in. Perhaps the definition of an expatriate is just that-one who doesn't fit, an Ishmael of momentarily fixed address. But I would never again fit into...
...Psychic Catastrophe. In short, Erikson's thinking takes in all of life-its struggles, victories and defeats-and sees it as a gradual unfolding. It is an optimistic philosophy, but he is no pollyanna. At every turn, he believes, there is as much chance for psychic catastrophe as for emotional growth. "When I talk about hope and basic trust," he says, "I am not referring to good manners or to the niceties of personality, but to the minimum conditions for human survival...
...cited as an exception to the pattern of union complacency the Italianlabor leadership, who, he said, recognize that "capitalist management will never take into account the physical, material, and psychic condition of workers unless forced...