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What critics exhume is seldom the writer who was buried. Where Goethe found perversity and disease, critics today find "true greatness," "a hero of the modern spirit," a precursor of Stendhal, Freud, D. H. Lawrence and Franz Kafka. Thomas Mann, Germany's greatest 20th century novelist, calls Von Kleist in the preface (written in 1955) to this book a "storyteller of the very first order." In this first English translation of his collected stories, the proofs are not always convincing. The compulsive violence that runs through these tales (notably Michael Kohlhaas, The Earthquake in Chile...
...music of Claude Debussy is the key to the "cross-fertilization of musical and poetic values that formed a fusion of the arts," a British musicologist maintained yesterday in the first Louis C. Elton lecture. Critic, scholar and composer, Edward Lockspeiser spoke on "Debussy, Poe and Freud: a New Approach to the Music of Cur Time...
While Lockspeiser claimed no direct personal influence of Freud on Debussy he maintained that Debussy's musical psychology, most prominent in Peleas et Meilsande, was closely attuned to the ideas Freud was then developing...
...there was a touch of malice in him, there was no envy; it was merely that Max's inner mirth and an ingrained cosmic uncertainty committed him to the unimportance of being earnest. D. H. Lawrence struck Max as a lunatic. He cheerfully confessed to Behrman that Freud was beyond him and added reflectively, "They were a tense and peculiar family, the Oedipuses, weren't they?" Virginia Woolf's stream-of-consciousness technique irritated him: "All of us have a stream of consciousness; we are never without it-the most ordinary and the most gifted. And through...
...gangs are formed, and what Freud called the "narcissism of small differences" begins to operate. "Turfs" or gang territories are established. "Points of honor" become the meaning in life. And so, into insults--the formal insult, say, of invading rival "turf"--is poured all the accumulated frustration endemic in our society. As Goodman puts it, "It is inevitable that there should be a public dream of universal disaster, with vast explosions, fires, and electric shocks...