Word: freude
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Here the author's faith in youth remains undisturbed. Here youth still rejects materialism, still sees through the hypocrisy of religion, still reads Freud and majors in Soc Rel, still sniffs at the draft, and still shares a common bond of brotherhood with oppressed peoles of the Third World. Here, in Gerzon's portrait of a generation, is youth-smiling through the tears, an irksome gaggle of alienated pollyannas...
...point out to your readers and you that the story titled "A Freudian Affair" [Jan. 12] is neither a "revelation" nor an "exposé." The statements of Mr. Billinsky referred to are unsubstantiated hearsay. All the data from unfriendly as well as friendly biographers of my uncle, Sigmund Freud, are counter to Mr. Billinsky's statements about...
...they shared are silent in the grave." This is factually true, as to their deaths, but the use of the word "shared" is a false conclusion drawn from false premises. For your information, my maiden aunt, Minna Bernays, lived with the family of her sister-my married aunt, Martha Freud-as was the custom when maiden ladies had no careers...
...through history one civilization after another has been desperately unhappy, muddled, or at least, perverse because they haven't been able to put themselves at ease about sex. It took man until Freud to figure out that it was sex that he wanted. I say "all through history" meaning of course, history as we know it. History-as-we-know-it doesn't have anything to do with real history. The history we know is the big thoughts, battles, and discoveries of a few kings, generals, religion-founders, writers, and painters. What the 99 per cent of the people...
What means Hunters in the Snow, for example? Sigmund Freud once remarked that every dream is a kind of picture puzzle. Bruegel liked puzzles too. More so than answers. A sort of bemusement, not too hopeful, may be the best mood in which to reach for what he meant...