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...Novelist Lessing, 53, does not have time for all that now. In the past 20 years she has written and lived her way through and forsaken such pangs and consolations as marriage, Freud, and the accomplishments of applied Marxism seem to offer. She is increasingly haunted by a vision of society's collapse, and maybe the world's-a coming darkness which at best will bring with it changes so radical that such things as the plight of the individual ego, for instance, or Women's Lib, will "look very small and quaint...
...great influences on modern dance, Graham's art is intensely psychological, shot through with Freud and populated by Jungian archetypes. For her, dance is the way to probe the mysteries of the psyche. It was a childhood experience that persuaded her that movement is more revealing than words. When her father caught her in a lie, she asked how he knew. "No matter what words may say," he explained, "movement never lies." That observation became her lifelong credo...
Flying Saucers. Few now doubt the brilliance and originality of Reich's early career, or the pioneering soundness of his linkage of body and mind. His ideas on sex and eroticism challenged and frightened the Freudian orthodoxy. Unlike Freud, Reich believed that mankind could build its civilizations without discontent. He tried to reconcile psychoanalysis and Marxism and made enemies on both sides. He postulated far-reaching theories on the nature and function of orgasm and suffered in the Victorian backlash...
...that there is nothing to what Dr. Levi-Strauss said. Dr. Herrnstein, the genetics specialist, told me that anyone with the chromosomes of both the great trouser manufacturing family and the famous Viennese composer was sure to be a smart guy. However, I tend to side more with Dr. Freud and see that Dr. Levi-Strauss's having the first name "Claude" forced him to compensate creatively for what he lacked as a person. In fact, I think some of the flaws in Dr. Levi-Strauss's thinking personally and structuralism generally stem from an unconscious overcompensation...
...that modern rationalists are trembling on the brink of the stupendous discovery that "man has an irreducible core of evil"-which seems to be intellectualese for the old-fashioned concept that he is a sinner. Is it possible that after wandering for years in the wilderness with Marx, Freud and Darwin, they are about to return to the Father's house...