25 Flashcards
(6 cards)
fission
“Will the Twentieth Century go down in history as the Freudian Century?” asked the editor of a volume called “Freud and the Twentieth Century,” in 1957. “May not the new forms of awareness growing out of Freud’s work come to serve as a more authentic symbol of our consciousness and the quality of our deepest experience than the uncertain fruits of the fission of the atom and the new charting of the cosmos?”
1: a splitting or breaking up into parts
2: reproduction by spontaneous division of the body into two or more parts each of which grows into a complete organism
3: the splitting of an atomic nucleus resulting in the release of large amounts of energy
get cold feet
In 1970, Crews published an anthology of essays promoting psychoanalytic criticism, “Psychoanalysis and Literary Process.” But he had started to get cold feet.
= to suddenly become too frightened to do something you had planned to do, especially something important such as getting married
= If you get cold feet about something, you become nervous or frightened about it because you think it will fail.
The Government is getting cold feet about the reforms.
take a constitutional
“Nor have the lives of great men been exciting except at a few great moments. Socrates could enjoy a banquet now and again… but most of his life he lived quietly with Xanthippe, taking a constitutional in the afternoon, and perhaps meeting a few friends by the way.”
The Art of the Good Life
Rolf Dobelli
= a walk that you often do to keep yourself healthy:
“She’s nearly 86 and still takes a constitutional every morning.”
theophany
While the Gospels incorporate history, they also mix in myths, legends, parables, theophany, philosophy, and cultural narratives shared throughout the Mediterranean world.
a visible manifestation of a deity
Handsaw
El testeresi
out cold
“He drank until he was out cold.”
bilinçsiz, baygın
= unconscious or sleeping very heavily.
“You were knocked out cold (=hit on the head so that you became unconscious).”
