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...their revolt against cultural matriarchy, these moderns were inspired and guided by two rival geniuses of psychology: the great precursor William James, who had died in 1910, and Sigmund Freud. There is a certain irony in the latter's role: Freud visited New York only once, in 1909, and was not impressed. He acknowledged that America was the first country to embrace psychoanalysis but detested the democratizing tendencies of the country's culture. Yet his ideas had a formative influence on writers as varied as Eugene O'Neill and James Thurber...
Douglas' dense, rat-a-tat-tat narrative is full of surprises. Few readers probably know that Samuel Goldwyn once offered Freud $100,000 to write a "love story" for his movie studio. Sometimes Douglas gets her details wrong. Gertrude Stein's famous tautology ("Rose is a rose is a rose"), for example, does not begin with "A," as the book quotes it. But these are minor flaws in an erudite portrait of a dazzling decade and metropolis, both of which had a sense "of having been a specially privileged and charged site of American experience.'' We shall not see their...
...addition to the story of Anne Frank, Gilligan cited the stories of Psyche and of the hysterical women Freud interviewed in the late nineteenth century as examples of women helping themselves and teaching men through their inner strength...
...Freud was booked solid. Sybil was shifting personalities. And Robert Lewis Stevenson was too busy mixing metaphors...
...droop, and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E.'s are vicious or ludicrous as such; but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. "The 20th century has never recovered from the effects of Marx and Freud" (V.G.); "but whether this is a good thing or a bad thing is difficult to say." (A.E.) Now one such might be droll enough. But by the dozen? This, the quantitative aspect of grading--we are, after all, getting $5 a head for you dolts and therefore pile...