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...specifically the subjects of the accompanying stories.) Karl Marx was reassessed in 1948, Vladimir Lenin in 1964 and their ideological opposites Adam Smith, in 1975, and John Maynard Keynes, in 1965. In the arts, William Shakespeare (1960) and Johann Sebastian Bach (1968) have been so treated; in science, Sigmund Freud (1956) and Albert Einstein...
...BOOK On Human Aggression, the master of the human psyche, Sigmund Freud tells us that men have a penchant for violent behavior. If the society in which they live sanctions primitive primal rites like cannibalism and clubbing each other, then their anger will probably take such unhindered, natural forms. If, however, the society is more cultured and "well-developed," violence will be channelled into more acceptable, covert forms of expression namely, athletics...
...disproportion, The Oxford Book of Dreams is an irresistible sampler. Reading Artemidorus (circa A.D. 150) is like eavesdropping in the imperial marketplace: "Someone dreamt that he had an iron penis. He fathered a son who killed him. For iron is consumed by the rust that it produces from itself." Freud's claim that the ancient Greeks had sensed what he had systematized is borne out by eerie resonances. In Aeschylus' drama, Orestes describes a snake "as though human ... its gaping mouth clutching the breast that once fed me ... it then mingled the sweet milk with curds of blood...
...about in random particles of energy yet at the same time gained power and prospered. To be free was to be modern; to be modern was to take chances. The American century was to be the century of unleashing, of breaking away, at first from the 19th century (as Freud, Proust, Einstein and others had done), and eventually from any constraints...
...Chapman Andrews, whose hunt for dinosaur and other ancient fossil remains in the Gobi Desert had fascinated the nation. In its second year, long before the id and the superego had become the chatter of the cocktail hour, TIME devoted a cover story to the controversial theories of Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis...