everyday life

• “[4] Freud himself agrees psycho-pathologic acts of everyday life are the formes frustes of the psychoneuroses and that this shows that we are all slightly nervous.”

  The Journal of Abnormal Psychology

• “It is tempting to speculate how far the outrageous persona of Mrs Beatrice Lestrange Bradley represented a natural exuberance which in everyday life her schoolmistress author was obliged to suppress.”

  Death at the Opera

• “For, if followed out to the very end, we shall find that the possible mental content and mental mechanisms are the same for all psychopathologic acts, whether of everyday life or distinctly abnormal and outside the pale of our average range.”

  The Journal of Abnormal Psychology

• “Dasein is free, yet in everyday life it is enslaved.”

  EXISTENTIALISM

• “They were no part of the practical everyday life in which you lifted your eyes and looked across at Garth Albany sitting beside Miss Sophy.”

  The Key

• “Perdiccas was murdered by his illegitimate son Archelaus who—amid the swirl of treachery, violence, and vicious love triangles, heterosexual and homosexual, that were part of everyday life in the Macedonian court—took the throne and began an intensive program of Hellenization.”

  Simon & Schuster: Alexander the Great

• “Such habits are not wholly incompatible with wisdom or generosity, and the devil's advocate would not advance them against their possessor's canonization; none the less, in everyday life they make against your enjoying a chat with their possessor:”

  The Cream of the Jest: A Comedy of Evasions

• “But in his capacity of Talmudist and teacher, it was equally natural that he should devote himself to the explanation of the Talmud, which formed the basis of instruction in the schools, besides serving to regulate the acts of everyday life and the practices of religion.”

  Rashi

• “In the end there appeared a real danger in the domain of casuistry — the possibility that, in its hands, the specification and specialized appli - cation of general rules essential to social control and the moralization of everyday life would turn into their dissolution — differently expressed, that casuistry which up to then had been a relativized absolutism would degenerate into an absolute relativism.”

  CASUISTRY

• “Although Freud and his followers have not stated, in just so many words, that the psychopathologic acts of everyday life have the same hidden mental content that the psychoneuroses have (although it is my contention that this conclusion is but a natural extension of their sexual theories concerning the psychoneuroses), yet we do find that Freud and the Freudian school in general apply their sexual theories to the whole group of the psychoneuroses.”

  The Journal of Abnormal Psychology

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