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...speaker who won respectful attention but little agreement was Manhattan's Mortimer Ostow, 37. He recalled that after observing the violence of World War I, Sigmund Freud revised his basis for psychoanalysis: instead of hunger and lust, which he had previously rated as the fundamental instincts, he postulated love (Eros) and a death instinct (Thanatos). Dr. Ostow made a different proposal. Instead of changing psychoanalysis again to meet the threat of World War III, he suggested that Freud's amended theory be applied to improve mankind so as to ensure peace. His recommendation: analyze all statesmen...
Analyst Ostow was not fazed by the fact that Freud's concept of a death instinct has proved difficult to accept. On it, he based his campaign to make the world safe for Eros. "It is the death instinct that is responsible for murder, wars, suicide and destructiveness," said he. While Eros fights and ultimately controls Thanatos, modern warfare could destroy most of the world's population and culture before Eros has time even to warm up. "If we are sure that psychoanalysis can attenuate the potential of death instinct - and I believe it can - then...
...This tolerance has meant that old gods have not been dethroned; they have merely been demoted. "Science students," says Goucher's Director of Religious Activities, Walter Morris, "have come to realize that science is accurate and true in those areas to which it has purposely limited itself." Freud is still studied respectfully, but he no longer monopolizes the conversation. The fashion now, says Nicholas Cardell, director of the University of Chicago's Unitarian Channing Club, "is to talk of Niebuhr or Tillich...
...Note Dostoevsky's helplessness when confronted with love," said Freud. "He understands either coarse animal desire or masochistic submission, or else love out of pity." In his readable, reasonable, slice-of-love-life study of the great Russian novelist, Author Slonim, Russian-born teacher and critic, documents this Freudian analysis in detail. Avoiding sweeping generalizations, Slonim suggests that some of the grit in the oyster of Dostoevsky's genius was put there by women...
...pessimism and fear. In this disquieting account of the rise and fall of phrenological "science," Author John D. Davis, onetime professor of history at Smith, has embedded a bale of fun among his footnotes. It is humbling stuff. If today's Pundit Walter Lippmann may be heard announcing Freud as "among the greatest who have contributed to thought," not so long ago President Garfield was having his "head read" and Walt Whitman was proudly reciting a poet's phrenological endowments in the preface to Leaves of Grass. Karl Marx took phrenology seriously, as did Bismarck and Darwin...