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...chemicals may work their damage in several ways. The excess ozone might open the pores of leaves, allowing acid rain to leach vital nutrients. Or acid rain may cause harmful changes in the chemical composition of the soil. Rain may also deposit toxic heavy metals that damage plants' root systems. Says Richard Phipps of the U.S. Geological Survey: "The darn thing is a heck of a lot more complex than we ever thought...
...takes root in the red flesh of soil...
...takes root in the ardent flesh...
...surprisingly interesting and readable, given its heavy documentation. Masson attempts to show why Freud abandoned his earlier seduction theory in favor of theories which emphasized the role of fantasies in producing neuroses. In 1896, a controversial paper Freud called "the Aetiology of Hysteria" proposed that childhood "seduction" was the root cause of most human problems in later life. This interpretation was criticized by other psychiatrists, and ten years later Freud renounced his seduction theory. Traditional psychoanalytic history holds that this abandonment was necessary for the development of Freud's pathbreaking theories of the Oedipus complex and infantile sexuality...
...writes. By shitting the emphasis from an actual world of sadnes, misery, and cruelty to an internal stage on which actors performed invented dramas for an invisible audience of their own creation. Freud began a trend away from the real world that, it seems to me, is at the root of the present-day sterility of psychoanalysis and psychiatry throughout the world." In The Assault on Truth Masson traces the circumstances and events which he believes led the young Freud away from the seduction theory towards a greater emphasis on patients fantasy life...