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...treat Klinger simply as a prophet of Surrealism-which Von Adlmann sensibly does not do-would be to miss the peculiar value of his art. The Surrealists were able to build their Tower of Babel on the work of Freud. But as far as is known, Klinger had never heard of the Viennese doctor. Born in Leipzig in 1857, and brought up in the correct milieu of provincial German society, he MIherited no work plans for dealing with his own unconscious images. He simply laid them out, naked or veiled with classical mythology. At the same time, Klinger was aware...
...Terms. Despite all the atmosphere of a reconciliatory love feast, the congress's stated central theme was aggression. With this the orthodox analysts had difficulty coming to grips, as had the master himself long ago. Freud at first identified aggression with sadism and therefore related it to sexuality. In the 1920s he revised his views and accorded aggression the status of a separate instinct. He also related it to his theory of a death instinct. Five eminent analysts had been invited to make major presentations on aggression at a plenary session, and most of their long discussion was devoted...
Strong support for Mitscherlich's call to action came also from South America. It was dramatically presented by Buenos Aires' Dr. Marie Langer, a petite, young-looking blonde of 60, who declared that psychoanalysis and Marxism are not mutually exclusive, as Freud and his orthodox followers have maintained. She urged analysts to study the interplay between "love of aggression" and private property. By abolishing private property, it is held, a country would abolish one of the ways in which people express their aggressions. Critics of that view, however, could point out that there is no evidence of diminished...
...congress's end, Anna Freud summed up. She tried to smooth over previous speakers' differences and conceded that analysts still had a "clouded vision" on aggression. Then, sounding like a reincarnation of her father, she added: "But who should arrive at valid results if not we?" Everybody applauded. But nothing had really been settled. Psychoanalysis, which has survived two great schisms provoked by Jung and Adler, seemed headed for a new and challenging schism...
...what has become one of the decade's most popular questions, Freud admitted having no answer: What does a woman want? One would like to have been able to slip him a copy of this first novel-a long, first-person, Portnoyesque rant that seems to wedge at least 30 years of neurotic female yearning into its emancipated pages...