Word: freude
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Holmes selection of the four "immortals" of the present decaying age, whom he considers to be Einstein, Freud, Lenin, and Gandhi, only make one change from a smile to bursting laughter. Mr. Holmes' parlor-pseudo liberalism seems to amount to mere naivete with the added assumption that his audiences are credulous enough to be swayed by his effusions. Mr. Holmes is well qualified to compete with Will Durant in this respect...
...Economics is a subject of vast and increasing importance. Economic motives lie very deep, perhaps even deeper than Freud conceives of sex motives as lying; for if the perpetuity of the race rests on sex motives, then the continuing existence of the race rests on economic motives. They underlie and color all our conduct. Such a fundamental subject certainly should be taught with thoroughness. The question is how to teach it with thoroughness...
PAST MASTERS - Thomas Mann - Knopf ($2.50). Collected lectures on Wagner. Nietzsche, Tolstoy, Freud et al. by Germany's foremost novelist...
...article, "How Trivial Are Modern Books?" by Mary Colum will interest those without any too definite ideas on literature. There is a fair review, with comment, of the trends centering around Flaubert and the Realists, and of the exudations of the followers of Charcot and Freud. The article eventually degenerates into a dissertation on style, with a great deal of maundering on "the passion of the inner rhythm." The worst fault of the piece is the conspicuous absence of a satisfactory answer to the question propounded in the title, and to the other questions raised...
...essay on Freud, the great Viennese is linked with Hindu philosophy, an astounding, but, it appears, by no means an impossible feat. Mr. Santayana's argument is very plausible and proceeds from Freud's assertion that "the goal of life is death." The concluding essay in this work deals with Julien Benda and the infinite as he propounds it. For his readers Mr. Santayana leaves a query. Are they to think that for Mr. Santayana the infinite is bad, as it was for the Greeks? Answers will vary...