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...needs to be asked in each generation. What were valuable truths then and now? In retrospect, truth emerged for me as much from poetic passion as from the disciplined play of science. John Finley became the sulking Achilles and wily Odysseus on the state of Sanders Theatre while Anna Freud Coolly described our unconscious lust on the third floor of Emerson Hall. Archibald MacLeish, zen-like, trying to "know" an apple balanced James Watson's discovery of the double helix. Clyde Kluckholn's exploration of Navaho culture and psyche challenged Wassily Leontieff's analysis of economic inputs and outputs...
Outraged Victorians were so busy harrumphing over Freud's mentioning sex at all that they managed to overlook many of his truly inflammatory writings...
...offensive. While I was somewhat uneasy at the characterizations of huge, lusty men and women who were "genuine whores" in Delta, Nin really comes out of the closet in Little Birds. If there are sadists, they are men. If there are masochists, they are women. The twin gods of Freud and D.H. Lawrence's are worshipped more fervently than ever...
What sets Chitrabhanu off from other modern theorists and spiritual leaders, from Freud, Thoreau, or Mahatma Gandhi? Possibly it is his simplicity. A man who once spiritually led millions of Indians, including the prime minister, now happily does individual counseling, but only after he has spent hours sharing and playing with his children. A man who once because of his vows could touch neither women nor money now insists upon introducing his wife to the interviewer. A man who spent five years in silence except for occasional conversation with his guru has taught at several universities and speaks ten languages...
Psychiatry is not in a "depression,' as you so charitably put it. Psychiatry, like the behavioral sciences it spawned, is bankrupt and should be put to rest. The theories of Freud and his disciples have produced illiterates in our schools, turned prisons into training grounds for criminals, perverted our judicial system, created the Me-First society and expounded economic policies that have virtually ruined us financially...