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...What I really am," Dr. Blaine contends, "is a Neo-Freudian." This means that he belongs to a group of personality theorists who accept many of Freud's insights, but reject his pan-sexualism, and place emphasis on the conscious mind and cultural determinants. The Neo-Freudians (Fromm, Herney, Erikson, among others) also believe that a psychiatrist should practice "directive therapy"--the therapist should offer concrete advice to his patient, not remain a passive listener. Blaine uses his theory in "short-term psychotherapy," the usual treatment offered by the Health Services. In the program, the student usually comes in once...
...public appearances (he once hired Carnegie Hall for himself) in which he could be heard advocating better boxing, better orgasms, bullfights in Central Park, and other items of surrealistic irresponsibility. But he is a fearless performer, a lively controversialist and handles heavy cultural names like King Lear, Dostoevsky, Freud, Sartre like a demented, butter-fingered juggler...
...DuBois became aware of two great thinkers whose views were to sharpen his outlook and influence his later actions: Freud and Marx. As early as 1904 he joined the Socialist Party, though he was soon to leave it to support Wilson. In 1926 DuBois made his first visit to the Soviet Union which "was for me a never-to-be-forgotten experience and it strengthened my belief in socialism as the one great road to progress." This development of DuBois' thought culminated when he joined the Communist Party of the United States of America...
...Hughes concluded, the professor has another more hopeful alternative: to recall and reactivate the wider interests and more personal goals he has ruthlessly curbed to pursue his special discipline. Like Freud or Henry Adams, he can provide original insights in new fields as an amateur...
...CHILD'S GUIDE TO FREUD by Louise Armstrong. Drawings by Whitney Darrow Jr. 60 pages. Simon & Schuster...