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What bothers Howe even more is Kate's "lack of intellectual sophistication," betrayed, he says, by her "dominating obsession" with the idea that all male-female differences except anatomical ones are culturally rather than biologically determined. Besides, he continues, she maligns Freud when she brands him a counterrevolutionary whose theories set back the cause of women's freedom. On the contrary, Howe believes, Freud's ideas paved the way for today's concern about sex roles. He tried to free women from "subordination to domineering fathers," and to help them like themselves as women. That, says...
...Freud argued that suicide is the would-be murder of another person deflected against the self. Could the reverse be true? Might a murder be a suicide performed upon someone else? Such is one tentative meaning that could be derived from Marguerite Duras' simultaneously luminous and opaque play, A Place Without Doors, which is having its U.S. premiere at New Haven's Long Wharf Theater. Another tentative meaning might be that life is a mystery on a scale that reduces the solution of a murder to the pettiest of puzzles. Since Marguerite Duras is a French novelist...
...with his mother and stepfather, a Jewish pediatrician. He had little interest in school and at 18 began several years of wandering about in the Black Forest and northern Italy as "a transitional beatnik." He drew constantly and studied painting. But in 1927 a friend who had already joined Freud's circle invited Erikson to Vienna to help him run a school he was starting for the children of Freud's patients and students...
...aside his notion of the artist's life as he became more deeply involved in the almost idyllic atmosphere that surrounded the master. Analysis was shorter then and less formal; social relations between doctor and patient were not yet suspect. Erikson taught the children, was analyzed by Anna Freud and gradually became a practicing child analyst himself. He has no university degree...
...came to be so unbalanced. Instead, he feuds shrilly with Justin Kaplan, author of the excellent 1966 biography Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain, and with a succession of editors of Twain's posthumously printed Autobiography. Kaplan's supposed offenses are hardshell Freudianism (Geismar is an adherent of Freud's dissident disciple, Otto Rank, whom he peddles as if Rank were a mutual fund), and undue susceptibility to influence by the CIA. It is Geismar's fantasy that "cold war critics," including Kaplan and Charles Neider, the most recent editor of the Autobiography, deliberately suppressed and undervalued...