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Walk with the lantern of Diogenes

Jean-Leon Gerome, Diogenes

Phraseologism: Walk with the lantern of Diogenes.

Meaning: Persistently, but in vain, to seek something or someone.

Origin: The ancient Greek writer Diogenes Laertsky (III century BC) in the 4th book. of his work "The Life, Teachings and Opinions of Famous Philosophers" tells how once the great philosopher of Ancient Greece Diogenes (XNUMXth century BC) lit a lantern in the afternoon and walked with it around the city. To the bewildered questions of the townspeople, he answered briefly: "I am looking for a person." Thus, the philosopher wanted to say that it is almost impossible to find a perfect person who would fully correspond to this title, literally “you cannot find him in the daytime with fire” (a well-known Russian saying).

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Sexual revolution.

Meaning:

The process and result of fundamental changes in the sexual life of society, characterized by significant transformations of sexual values, orientations, norms, sanctions and sexual relations, liberating the individual and society, leveling social moral and religious norms about the prohibition of sex outside of marriage, chastity and others.

Origin:

The name of the German edition (1925) of a book by the famous Soviet medical hygienist Grigory Abramovich Batkis (1895-1960). This title - "The Sexual Revolution in the Soviet Union" ("Die sexuelle Revolution in der Sovietunion") - was given to her by her German publishers. In the 1960s this expression has become very popular in Western Europe. Then it was associated with the name of the Austrian Marxist psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957) and the English edition (1945) of his book "Sexuel Revolution". Since 1939 W. Reich lived in the USA. The first, Austrian edition (1936) of his book was called Sexuality and the Struggle for Culture.

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