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People who write good social criticism these days are essentially gadgeteers. Like Freud, contemporary social critics enjoy tinkering around with their own perceptions, ordering them with analytical categories taken from the academe as well as with a journalist's feel for day-to-day events. However, in using this approach, modern critics have not ignored the austere tradition of prophet and moralist, one "crying in the wilderness." Of course, our better critics, the ones we can take seriously, are more sophisticated than a Jonah or Isaiah. Yet, as the old prophets did, men like Riesman worry a lot about what...
...other hand, many parents "louse themselves up" by taking children too seriously and constantly categorizing them in terms of Freud, Spock, author of the best-selling Baby and Child Care, continued...
Guardian of What? Though such facts have been established, the basic question remains: Why does anybody dream at all? Kant and Schopenhauer equated dreams with insanity. Freud called dreaming "the guardian of sleep"; he concluded that the sleeper dreams of problems (often heavily disguised) that boil up in his unconscious because they are too painful or threatening for the conscious mind to face. The dream, he said, preserves sleep by offering a palliative for the problem...
Polanski is a graduate of Poland's state run school of cinema, yet the tale lacks any propogandistic overtones and could be set on a lake anywhere. Ideologically, it owes a great deal more to Freud than to Marx for the drama is one of personalities and not of social systems...
...other stories, notably The Other John Peel and The Firebug, are well told but have the characteristic defect in that Sillitoe's automata of the sub-world are moved to explain themselves in terms of those heavily bearded bores Marx and Freud. An unctuous homiletic tone slops over into the hard-case dialogue as Sillitoe labors to make clear that the allright blokes are pro-Corn and the real rozzers are Tory types...