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...Manhattan psychiatrist, secretary to the Minister of Labor in Kerensky's short-lived provisional government, who fled to the U.S. in 1919, helped found (1936) the Committee for the Study of Suicide in hopes of finding a prevention for suicide, psychoanalyzed well-heeled patients, wrote several books (Sigmund Freud, Freud and Religion); of cancer; in Manhattan...
...been there mostly because you can't have a family without a man," says Moore. "He is there mostly as an observer." He reflects on a point on which he has plainly reflected before. "There's no doubt I've had what Freud would call a mother complex...
...agonizing struggle in Hum 5 or Phil 1 with Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion is evidently one of the most severe; many a small town has lost its most promising Baptist in those ordeals, and many a fashionable parish the scion of its most prominent Episcopalian. Freud's Moses and Monotheism or The Future of an Illusion must provoke nearly equal distress; one atheist passes up all alternatives listed on the questionnaire and writes, "God is man's interpretation of what dissatisfies him.... A rejection of God comes through progress towards understanding one's emotional condition." Another similarly explains...
Like a good liberal nineteenth-century freethinker, the typical Harvard non-believer doodles with arguments about an entity named God as if this merely happened to be a nondescript question that struck his fancy. Instead of being made more complacent by Hume and Freud, he needs to be jarred by Nietzsche and Kierkegaard, Pascal and Dostoyevski, into the realization that the religious question is the question of questions, that the problem of God is not whether an entity exists or does not exist--about which a cautious skepticism might make sense--but whether the spiritual dynamo of an entire civilization...
...that, Jones's loyalty to Freud remained so deep that it prevented completion of his own autobiography. He started Free Associations in 1944, then laid it aside to spend most of the next decade turning out his definitive three-volume biography of the master. When he returned to the story of his own life, there was time to carry it only through World War I before liver cancer killed him. Ironically, despite all the evidence of a lifetime's discipleship, Jones to the last wrote scathingly of disciples, insisting: "I have always been much too independent to play...