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Kanner is no worshiper of Freud. He wrote: "If you want to go on worshiping the Great God Unconscious and his cocksure interpreters, there is nothing to keep you from it. But do not let your children pay the penalty for your own excursions into the realm of fancy. For there is nothing more fanciful than an unproven, arbitrarily decreed 'psychology,' sublimely removed from life as it is lived, scornful of facts and real occurrences, and depending instead on a dreambook type of 'interpretation' of a mythological Unconscious." Never Tell a Lie. It takes either...
...Copernicus had challenged the earth-centered universe, Montaigne had skeptically consigned man to the lowest rung of the animal kingdom, and Machiavelli had argued that statecraft was a matter of the basest self-interest, devoid of moral principle. Modern man has seen Einstein throw a curve into the cosmos, Freud lift the lid on the cauldron of the unconscious, and Marx upturn continents with the doctrine of dialectical material ism in which the end justifies the means...
...Seven Year Itch, etc., all "b~sed on adultery by intellectuals. Unlike French farce, it is essentially smug. You have to be able to live in Westport. You know all about Freud. You have to be able to af ford the slightly Bohemian reconverted barn in which the artist for The New Yorker, that safe citizen of our times, works...
Clio is more poetically ruminative than ambitious, makes no attempt to spell out the problems of the human condition that led to the warnings and preachments of The Age of Anxiety. Auden has no palliatives now, no longer looks for comfort or understanding in Marx, Freud or egoistic routes to salvation. Instead, there is an air of hard-won shrewdness and a recourse to God, whose mysterious being is suggested with what might seem Audenesque skepticism if it were not so typically an Auden commitment. For Poet Auden, who frankly admits to his friends that he feels obliged...
...this reasoning, Shakespeare understated the case with "To sleep: perchance to dream." Mayhap there is no "perchance." And Freud may have been conservative when he called dreams "the guardian of sleep." By Dr. Dement's data, they are the guardian of sanity...