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...tribute to the genius of Sigmund Freud, who was born one hundred years ago this coming Sunday, that the impending anniversary will be observed in a spirit close to the one which inspired him to make his pioneer achievements in psychoanalysis. In the past few months, a large number of critical evaluations of the philosophical and social implications of his work have appeared. Conspicuously absent from them, is the thoughtless adulation Freud never allowed himself...
...Freud followed throughout his life the path of radical criticism of stereotypes. Seeking to follow in this tradition, two recent studies, Erish Fromm's The Sane Society and Herbert Marcuse's Eros and Civilization, attempt to apply Freud's insights to our current culture. Both authors, who violently disagree with one another, agree at least in condemming the "manipulative" or "repressive" life we force ourselves into. Stanley Hyman, in the Spring issue of Partisan Review, declares that Freud again made an understanding of the tragic side of human life possible. Hyman also criticizes what he believes to be a current...
...self-analysis made Freud a relatively adjusted man, it never blunted the sharpness of his search for understanding. He was too restless an explorer to remain content with his theories, worked until his death on amendments and additions. He was far less tolerant toward others' discontent with his theories, bitterly opposed some followers' deviations, but might well have accepted others that have developed since. Some rudiments of the Freudian main theme and principal variations...
...Sigmund Freud held that the nature of man is essentially biological; man is born with certain instinctual drives. Most notable: the drive toward self-gratification. Basic mental energy, or libido, is equated with sexual energy by making the word "sex" stand for all pleasure...
Neurosis, to Freud, results from unsuccessful attempt by the personality to achieve harmony among id, ego and superego, and this failure in turn results from arrest of development at an immature stage. Commonest cause of emotional disharmony: failure to resolve Oedipal feelings. Example: many girls who profess to seek marriage actually avoid it because the prospect activates the threat of unacceptable emotions which are fixated to their fathers...