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...BOURGEOIS EXPERIENCE: VICTORIA TO FREUD: VOLUME I: EDUCATION OF THE SENSES by Peter Gay: Oxford 534 pages...
...sexual mores? Gay apparently believes so. The changes that brought the bourgeoisie to power, says the historian, made it suspicious of all change, anxious and insecure about itself; it cherished privacy and discretion. "In matters of sexuality," explained the great explainer of that time and class, Sigmund Freud, "we are, all of us, the healthy as much as the sick, hypocrites nowadays...
...staid merchants with luscious nudes fig-leafed with titles like Venus Now Wakes. Manet's Olympia shocked the salon of 1865 not because she was naked but because she looked back at the viewer with the defiant eyes of a thoroughly contemporary Parisian courtesan. On second thought, said Freud, who is one of Gay's principal heroes, perhaps "a certain measure of cultural hypocrisy is indispensable for the maintenance of civilization...
...patient of Sexologist Havelock Ellis, who described her in his autobiography as "a shy sinuous figure, so slender and so tall that she seemed frail, yet lithe, one divined, of firm and solid texture." Freud, who analyzed her in the early '30s for $25 a session, told her she was a classic example of bisexuality. H.D.'s own ideal was not a psychological abstraction but a statue of a sleeping hermaphrodite that she had seen as a young woman at the Diocletian Gallery in Rome...
...impromptu striptease. He attracts more than the routine attention of the state security police (HOGPo) as well as of most of the women he encounters, from the nymphomaniac wife of a British diplomat to a "magical realist" Slakan novelist who seduces him in a shower, quoting Marx and Freud all the while. "Do you think it is possible to make a dialectical synthesis?" the novelist says. "If we do it well, it might not produce a false consciousness...