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...Freud is misconstrued to have prescribed good orgasms, with fitting objects, and regularly." Smith stated; but in fact "what Freud wanted was both love and work carried on in the atmosphere of intimacy and trust that overcomes distance between people...
...Freud. Director John Huston has turned out an intense, intelligent cinemonograph on the early struggles of the papa of psychiatry, portrayed without much psychological insight by Montgomery Clift...
Perhaps Fromm should never have deserted Freud-or the couch...
Just how shaky these credentials are can be seen from Fromm's latest book, an account of his own intellectual devel opment and a paean of praise to Karl Marx at the expense of Sigmund Freud. In comparing the two thinkers, Fromm praises both for breaking new ground and taking a "dynamic" approach to human behavior. But while Freud uncovered the "individual unconscious," Marx revealed the "social unconscious," the forces at work changing society. Fromm came to a heretical conclusion for a psychoanalyst: "Marx is a figure of world historical significance with whom Freud cannot even be compared...
Messianic Tastes. Fromm has always found Freud too pessimistic for his taste. In fact, he has broken radically with Freud, though he is still euphemistically known as a "Freudian revisionist." Freud saw man as the prisoner of his primitive drives; Fromm thinks he can be infinitely shaped by society. Freud thought every life was blighted by the childhood Oedipus complex; Fromm sees nothing worse in childhood than a healthy rebellion against parental authority. Fromm finds Marx much more congenial than Freud because he promises so much more, once the socialist millennium has arrived: a free and unfettered individual, brimful...