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...apostasy. The record states that master and student parted for ideological reasons, principally because Jung refused to accept the Freudian tenet that virtually all human emotional problems could be traced to sex. The Jungian school enlarged the definition of the libido into a vital life-force, or Bergsonian élan, of which the sex drive is only a component-and not a very big one at that...
Homemade Fancies. Once there is added to these bewildering inconsistencies Shaw's homemade fads & fancies-his plumping for "eugenic breeding'' (which Bentley, with restraint born of love, euphemizes into "idealistic racism"), antivivisectionism, vegetarianism, the Bergsonian "Life Force"-the Shavian mind begins to look like a railroad baggage room, full of handsome luggage and old egg crates...
...researches found that Lawrence's materials came not only from his constantly anguished experience but from a whole raft of undigested philosophy, anthropology, occultism. The fashionable gibber of Madame Blavatsky from Tibet, the yoga writings of one Pryse ("All I say is Om," said Lawrence), the Bergsonian view that all was flux, the Freudian unconscious, the Jungian libido, many studies of primitive culture were all skimmed by Lawrence for his private religion. By the time he got to Susan, says Scholar Tindall with no particular depth, deep called to deep...
Berkeley Square is a dignified and cerebral romance based on the Bergsonian-Einsteinian notion of Time, which hints that past, present and future are illusory, that the impression of fleeting moments, hours and years is not to be trusted. Suggested by Henry James's Sense of the Past, written by John L. Balderston, London correspondent of the New York World, it comes, like so many plays this season, from London. The story is of Peter Standish, young U. S. citizen living in his ancestral London townhouse, who likes the 20th Century so well that he suddenly finds himself back...
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