"Back at Dayton Chaminade High, Weber had begun intellectual life as a confirmed Freudian--brain as hydraulic pipe for mind's spectacular waterworks--anything to confound his priest teachers."
— Powers, Richard (b. 1957)
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Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Picador
Date
2006
Metaphor
"Back at Dayton Chaminade High, Weber had begun intellectual life as a confirmed Freudian--brain as hydraulic pipe for mind's spectacular waterworks--anything to confound his priest teachers."
Metaphor in Context
Back at Dayton Chaminade High, Weber had begun intellectual life as a confirmed Freudian--brain as hydraulic pipe for mind's spectacular waterworks--anything to confound his priest teachers. By graduate school, he'd taken to persecuting Freudians, although he'd tried to avoid the worst Behaviorist excesses. When the cognitive counterrevolution broke, some small operant-conditioned part of him held back, wanting to insist, Still not the whole story. As a clinician, he'd had to embrace the pharmacology onslaught. Yet he'd felt a real sadness--the sadness of consummation--hearing a subject who'd struggled for years with anxiety, suicidal guilt, and religious zeal tell him, after the successful tuning of his doxepin dosages, "Doctor, I'm just not sure what I was so upset about, all the time."
(p. 190)
(p. 190)
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Citation
Richard Powers, The Echo Maker (New York: Picador, 2006).
Date of Entry
06/08/2015
