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Article: Who's the boss? McTeague, naturalism and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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- Mosaic (Winnipeg)
- Article date:
- June 1, 1999
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The late 19th century in America was a time of technological advances, demographic transformations, and scientific and psychological inquiries of great magnitude. In addition to these new environmental factors, the impact of the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species in 1859 and, later, Freud's writings on human behavior caused disorientation in the sphere of human development. Human beings were now perceived to be subject to many external and internal forces over which they had little control. Indeed, the question of what governs human conduct became centrally important in science, religion, and ethics as well as in psychology.
Such questions were also a ...