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...Self, Christopher Lasch's book of all-over-the-page analysis and erudite grumbling, represents one such discrepancy. A sociologist by profession. Lasch made his reputation several years ago with The Culture of Narcissism. In that book as in this, he tries to explain modern life by generalizing from Freud's theories of personality to the condition of society as a whole. He argues that contemporary culture fosters narcissistic personalities. The discrepancy comes when Lasch, as a faithful son of Sigmund, attacks writers who do just what he is doing Criticizing Herbert Marcuse, a noted re-interpreter of psychoanalytic thought...
However, the author means not merely to describe personality but to identify and to help solve its problems. The subtitle of his book is "psychic Survival in Troubled Times." Lasch wants to help people recover a mature and realistic sense of personality. For this task, Freud is not enough. The author drags in the entire Judaeo-Christian tradition as well when he asserts that genuine self-affirmation...
...gets through and so long as the citizens acquire or confirm the habit of theoretical thinking. Thus Lasch, embarking on a psychoanalytic critique of American politics, economics, literature and art, stops long enough to tell us that our "salvation" must come from those nifty Judaeo-Christian habits which Freud's work has done so much to undermine...
DIVORCE HAS become as American as vallum: as available for the asking from some store front Perry Mason as its pill counterpart from some would be Freud. But though valium is a personal affair between a neurotic and his deadened senses, divorce offers something for the whole family to go crazy about...
...Thiefs of Hearts, writer and director Douglas Day Stewart presents an unnerving and alluring possibility for a thriller, the simultaneous unveiling of deep secrets and the realization of fantasy. Scotty, Ray and Mickey personify Freud's conception of the mind. Scotty is the Id; one's primal nature, impulsive and sensual. Ray represents the superego, law-abiding, secure and conventional. Mickey's the ego in the middle, trying to achieve a balance between the two. "Thief of Hearts" fails to achieve a thoroughly disturbing effect because Mickey suffers from a healthy psyche. She is tempted, she even yields slightly...