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...true that Freud, Joyce and general confusion in the mind have made it impossible to write novels in the manner of Anthony Trollope. Sybille Bedford does just that. She is not an existentialist desperado; she does not go into psychological swivets; she has no new material for Dr. Kinsey. She just tells a plain tale with an old-fashioned Trollopean sense of the importance of what people wear, the houses they occupy, the jobs and property they get and lose, and the inherent drama of the tables of consanguinity. To this concern she adds a truly female tongue...
...past, the primitive life has been portrayed wistfully by Western thinkers in various ways. Rousseau saw it as freedom from the corruptions of civilization; Freud saw it as freedom from restrictive Victorian sexual morality. More recently and more subtly men like Riesman have implied a relative lack of anxiety in a simple, unchanging social situation. In one way or another, men have longed for the stable uncomplicated primitive life, whether it be on a South Sea island or in a Neo-lithic farming community. The ford myth of an effortless Eden dies hard, stubbornly resisting the evidence of numerous expeditions...
While at Harvard, Mailer was an Engineering major. He is now one of the most controversial American authors. In his recent book, Advertisements for myself, Mailer said he was hard at work on a fourth novel that would make Dostoevsky, Freud and Marx feel that he had added something to their work...
...rival and increasing his headaches. Informed that she is too meddlesomely possessive, Mama joins daughter on the couch in her own folksy way: "I like a harder mattress." The kindly psychoanalyst offers her some open-sesame seeds of wisdom-be permissive. At play's end, everyone is (Freud should pardon the expression) well adjusted...
...indifferent .. . Something comes through, writing this way." Durrell can't see it. "Really corny and deeply embarrassing ... and worst of all pretentious," he wrote, and added that he cannot abide "the emptiness of this generation of self-pitying crybabies .. . God or Zen is simply a catchword, as Freud was in our time...