Word: freude
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fairy-tale poetry of hansom cabs, gloomy London lodgings and lonely country estates." Meyer views the basis of Holmes' immortality simply as the story of a friendship: the intellectual rationalist and his immortal physician-confidant, a man of infinite joust, the stolid, substantial, late great doctor... Sigmund Freud...
...Sigmund Freud...
Rudimentary, says Meyer. Holmes was mainlining cocaine (cf. The Sign of the Four); Freud, at the same period, had effected some dramatic drug cures. What could be more logical than a meeting of the two most original minds of the Victorian epoch? The notion is at once revolutionary and traditional. Two decades ago, in A Study in Terror, Ellery Queen affected to find a fugitive manuscript of Dr. John H. Watson, M.D. It told of Holmes' pursuit of one John the Harlot Killer, also known as Jack the Ripper. For The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, Meyer "uncovers" another manuscript...
...Alexander may have been the greatest. He brought the Greek and Oriental civilizations together, and it's hard to conceive of this happening without his personal intervention. Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, who set the terms for political discussion. But both pale before two 19th century intellectual giants, Sigmund Freud and Lenin's own mentor, Karl Marx, the secular prophets of our time...
...highly repetitive recourse in both readings and lectures to what The Crimson's "Confidential Guide" terms the "traditional pantheon" of the social sciences--Marx, Freud, Weber, and Durkheim (one might also add Nietzsche)--illustrates this attitude further. Whatever truths they have to teach, and they certainly offer some, all of these writers to one degree or another made it their special interest, and a matter central to their most influential thinking, to cast doubt on some portion of traditional religion and theology. It may be difficult to ignore such intellectual giants, and even inappropriate in courses devoted to the history...