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...Write? Nevertheless (if there is a single word that sums up existentialism, it is "nevertheless"), man must commit himself to causes, must bear responsibility for his acts. Only half accepting Marx and Freud, Sartre rejected both psychology and history as predetermining man's fate; man is completely free to choose between good and evil, which is an awesome burden-particularly since Sartre is never helpful enough to define the terms. But most of his characters were usually obsessed by evil...
...kind of American utopian leftism, a kind which is very sure of itself. Though Goodman has made no specific reference to Herbert Marcuse, his thinking appears to use ideas first formulated by the Frenchman in Eros and Civilization. This approach tries to put mass production, Marx, and Freud into a coherent scheme. The result is a clear possibility for a "non-repressive society...
...informatively as was possible in 30 minutes devoted to nothing less than all the causes and early events of the conflict. The pictures of Gallipoli and the Lusitania, young Göring and old Hindenburg were absorbing enough, but the best moments came in unexpected footnotes, such as Sigmund Freud's declaring: "All my libido is given to Austria-Hungary...
...edge of bankruptcy, the ancient Hapsburg capital was still the political and financial nerve center of the Balkans. As Europe slid into the chaos of depression and approaching war, the Viennese reveled in the musicmaking of Richard Strauss, Lotte Lehman and Bruno Walter; they entrusted their psyches to Sigmund Freud and his rivals, and indefatigably dissected Stefan Zweig's novels or Joseph Schumpeter's economics in the city's celebrated cafés, fueling the endless talkfest with the best beer and coffee in the world...
...British intelligentsia's newest high priestess is Brigid Brophy, and it is easy to see why. She picks only top-chop idols, and her devotional fires resemble a Bessemer converter. Brophy's incisive critical essays have revealed her pantheon: Freud, Shakespeare, Mozart and Jane Austen. To Great God Freud she has already devoted a book, Black Ship to Hell; now the 18th century composer gets his. In Mozart, her scholarship is firm, and the writing is good Brophy, but it is sheer gusto and freshness of thought that make the book a joy to read...