Word: freude
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Because Sigmund Freud invented psychoanalysis, there was no old couchman around to analyze him and get him started on the right track-so he analyzed himself. Now Erich Fromm, one of the most eminent of today's analysts, who differs with Freud on many vital issues, has subjected the founder to a searching analysis from the outside. It is not the first such effort, but the best. In Sigmund Freud's Mission, (Harper; $3), German-born Author Fromm casts grave doubt on Biographer Ernest Jones's description of Freud's self-analysis as "an imperishable feat...
Items: "Lack of emotional warmth, closeness, love and enjoyment of life"; in his own life he treated love like a flower pressed in a book, "an object of science, but . . . dry and sterile." Most startling: "Freud, the great spokesman for sex, was altogether a typical puritan. To him, the aim of life for a civilized person was to suppress his emotional and sexual impulses." And from Freud's own pen is a clear statement that even within a supposedly ideal marriage his sex life was over when...
...Religion. "Dependency and insecurity are central elements in ... his neurosis." Freud was "deeply in need of motherly love, admiration and protection, full of self-confidence when these are bestowed on him, depressed and hopeless when they are missing. This insecurity, both emotional and material, makes him seek to control others who depend on him, so that he can depend on them...
...Although Freud developed the hotly debated Oedipus complex from his feelings toward his mother, Fromm believes that he concealed their intensity even from himself. And while discovery of the "wish to remain attached to Mother" was a notable event, Freud destroyed its value by restricting it to instinctual desires. In analytic terms: "His own attachment to Mother was the basis of his discovery, and his resistance to seeing his attachment was the basis for the limitation and distortion of this very discovery...
Over in the Fogg, H.M. Jones talks about American Literature from 1890-1920 in English 170a, while Professor Hughes studies the intellectual history of 20th century Europe (Hist. 134) in Harvard 1. Freud, Pareto, and the existential denizens of "Les Deux Magots" will be discussed...