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...Sigmund Freud was not the luckiest of men. After making the century's biggest breakthrough in the direction of mental health, he was denounced for his pains as "a sexual maniac" and "the Antichrist." Later his leading disciples deserted him. Then at the height of his fame he was hit by an incurable cancer and died without witnessing the full impact of his ideas. Though only 32 years have passed since his death, that impact now seems largely spent, and Freud himself sometimes appears little more than a joke saint of pop cult. Many of his ideas have been...
Stone's main mistake is non-selectivity. He spent five years in research, and seems more interested in the facts than he is in Freud. Even menus are printed in full, and at one point the story stands still while the author describes 37 of Freud's colleagues. Anal is the Freudian word for this sort of heap making, but Stone is unembarrassed and apparently unaware that the details have effaced the drama of Freud's life...
...what will happen when the little guys watching the T.V. see Orr and Espo mixing it up against the boards? Freud couldn't have dreamed of worse...
...framework is missing. Anderson's reader will never know that Marx popularized the word alienation; that Freud supplied most of the vocabulary Anderson must use to discuss the "imperial self" in the first place. The last poet unaffected by an "imperial self" was a medieval troubadour, the last philosopher, Thomas Aquinas. Would Anderson blame Stendhal's The Red and the Black for the disintegration of "communal ties" in Europe...
ALFRED is the perfect observer: wholly rootless, he is the progeny of parents who used him only to test their Freud and Ferenczi. Patsy's task is enormous. Alfred's college sojourns into any form of activism were doomed when he realized that above every government functionary there was another, that society had become a machine which continues to blur personal motivations until it runs down. Patsy, for all her fatuous cheerleading and self-enclosed attitudes, wakens Alfred out of his emotional lethargy. But just when he acquiesces to her post-marriage plans, she falls victim to an assassin...