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...pigeonholing books and, in one way or another, teaching people how to read them. With Robert M. Hutchins, former chancellor of the University of Chicago, he winnowed Western thought into Great Books of the Western World, a 54-volume set of 443 works by 74 authors (from Homer to Freud), which was published in 1952. To help readers explore those works, he classified man's search for wisdom into 102 basic ideas (from "Angel" to "World") and fashioned an index which he called the Syntopicon, meaning "collection of topics." It directs a reader exploring the ideas to every mention...
...today. It reaches back to prehistoric ages. Has man really changed in the last 10,000 years?" Thus Carl Jung introduced his theory of archetypes: of the instinctive symbols which, he argued, describe the primary, immortal structures of the human mind. Generally speaking, it has been Freud, not Jung, who presided over modern art-chiefly through Surrealism. But the hope of discovering forms that are numinous and sacred in Jung's sense has never quite left painting. To be sure, a lot of its manifestations have been head-shop trash-Peter Max mandalas and the like. But some have...
...rats have no chance to show their higher faculties-and then present their most trivial findings as the true picture of the human mind, they prompt people to regard themselves as automata, devoid of responsibility or worth, which can hardly remain without effect upon the tenor of social life." Freud, Adler and Jung? Although psychoanalysts "offer many fundamental insights into real-life situations" and cannot be accused of banality or irrelevance, Andreski says, they lack "a sense of proportion." Thus, he concludes, "we are left in the void between quantified trivialities and fascinating but entirely undisciplined flights of fantasy...
Ernest Jones, official biographer of Sigmund Freud, seemed to agree with those sentiments when he wrote in 1930: "Chess...is a play substitute for the art of war." But in the same essay, The Problem of Paul Morphy, which discussed the paranoia that beset the American chess prodigy of the 1850s, he also moved Freud's much-debated interpretation of Oedipus onto the chessboard. Morphy, in Jones' somewhat questionable theory, had to sublimate a strong Oedipal urge to "kill the father." His own flesh-and-blood father was already dead, but Morphy had a surrogate father, Howard Staunton...
Auden feels less need to qualify in attacking the present, its verbose pretensions, the decline of learning and language. Freud, up-to-date behavioral anthropology, as well as a gift for sardonic aphorism unmatched in poetry are all lightly trained on one of our much-vaunted achievements when the poet describes the moon landing as a "huge phallic triumph . . . made possible only/ because we like huddling in gangs and knowing/ the exact time." The poem "Circe" has hard words for the lady's most notably unwitting seductees, the dreamy denizens of the counterculture...