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...When in doubt about personal motivation and/or lacking common sense, let us hastily draw our conclusions from the gospel according to Freud and rap "Mom" on the knuckles again...
...Freud dealt with noise irritation as a symptom of anxiety neurosis "undoubtedly explicable on the basis of the close inborn connection between auditory impressions and fright." But Freud did not live in a modern apartment. People who do are subject to what Columbia University Urban Planner Charles Abrams calls "a new form of trespass, a new invasion of privacy." The Dickensian poor may have had to make a virtue of propinquity, and the Latin races have historically prized it, but the upper middle classes in the U.S. find unwanted intimacy irritating. Unseen, but all too perfectly heard, are domestic strife...
Major causes of the high death rate, report Dr. Stanley Mohler, a specialist in aviation medicine, and Psychologist Sheldon Freud, were "risk-taking attitudes and judgments." The two researchers were impressed by "the tendency of many of these physicians to fly at night in inclement weather over dangerous terrain, despite limited or no instrument-flight experience. In most of the weather accidents, the pilots had received official briefings concerning adverse weather, but decided to depart anyway...
Eternal Eros. Pure Freudians are rare nowadays, but Brown is so worshipful that he applies Freudian interpretations where Freud never reached. He justifies this by seeing Freud as a Columbus who had time to go so far on uncharted seas and no farther. Some times Brown makes slight alterations in Freud's pioneering map when he feels it is necessary, but more often he exalts him. Says he in Love's Body: "There is only one political problem in our world today: the unification of mankind. That they may be one-ut unum sint. This is Christ...
...Wrote Freud, in 1930: "Men have brought their powers of subduing the forces of nature to such a pitch that by using them they could now very easily exterminate one another to the last man. They know this-hence arises a great part of their current unrest, their dejection, their mood of apprehension. And now it may be expected that the other of the two 'heavenly forces,' eternal Eros, will put forth his strength so as to maintain himself alongside his equally immortal adversary." Adds Norman Brown: "Freud and Marx and Pope John: the thing is to bring...