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...ground in the first chapter, where Fromm presents his thesis that loving is an art, in a very professional sense. According to Fromm, like other arts loving requires knowledge and efforts, discipline and concentration. Having presented this extremely Teutonic theory of love, Fromm proceeds to indulge his pet concerns: Freud's ideas about sex, and social criticism...
Passionately addicted to self-scrutiny, the 20th century started out talking and worrying about its sex life with a nervous intensity that would have appalled earlier ages; it made prophets of Sigmund Freud, Havelock Ellis and that Baedeker of sexual abnormality, Richard von Krafft-Ebing. What remained was for someone to link the age's preoccupation with sex to its passion for statistics. That job was taken on, not surprisingly, by an American-Alfred Charles Kinsey of Bloomington, Ind., zoologist by training, who was determined to observe the sex behavior of the human animal with the scientific methods...
...last act, when her background is exposed and the play's pseudoallegorical meaning underlined. Laurel, the 13-year-old girl in the house, is impetuous, over-self-conscious, and neurotic in just the way one would expect from her family background. As she herself says, "My case is in Freud." Dominating the household is Laurel's grandmother, Mrs. St. Maugham, who typifies a way of life that is aristocratic, self-indulgent, warped, and gone forever. Her eccentricities, together with those of the Charles Addamsish butler, are not so well justified by the playwright. But still, all the characters are tastefully...
...Freud and Jung will soon be joining St. Augustine and Luther as prominent figures in the curriculum of the Harvard Divinity School. Under the terms of a grant announced yesterday, the National Institute of Mental Health is awarding $425,893 to Harvard, Loyola University of Chicago, and Yeshiva University of New York to develop a mental health curriculum for theological students...
What makes the whole business maddening, Allen observes, is that no one-from Aristotle to Freud-has yet worked out a satisfactory definition of humor. Allen concludes that the relationship of the TV fan to his favorite comic is a little like falling in love. Within six months the honeymoon is over. After a year, the fan begins to mutter critical asides. In two years he may switch to another channel. Allen's purpose in writing his book is to make "an examination and somewhat relaxed analysis of television humor"; his major concern is to give his readers...