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After reading and digesting all the verbiage and sales talk, it seemed like encountering a breath of cool air on a very hot day to turn to Sigmund Freud's book, The Future of an Illusion...
...there is one parodist who seldom needs to wield this club over a self-anesthetized audience. Ira Wallach, who proved his wit in his "Hopalong Freud" series, has a new book, called "Gutenberg's Folly...
...enough to make wiseacres blink. Twenty-five years ago, traditional Christianity seemed to many an American intellectual to be rolling up the scroll. The Good Life was a matter of well-planned getting and spending, and all the answers were to be found written down, from Hegel to Freud to Keynes. Professor John Dewey and his fellow philosophers were preaching a heady trial & error pragmatism. The up-to-date intellectual was so uninterested in Christianity that he rarely found it worth while even to be antireligious...
...with boys . . . misguided, too exciting discussions about sex . . . encouragement of display of undue degrees of nudity at home." In many "respectable" families, an attitude of "frankness" about procreation "is carried far beyond the needs of the curious child . . . [and] much of this spuriousness is perpetrated in the name of Freud, who [advocated] moderation and restraint; the parent was to answer the child's specific questions about sex but not deliver a lurid oration . . . He never encouraged exhibitionistic displays of nudity...
...centuries; his shrieks and murmurs carry across the Victorian era (which merely stopped its ears) to the present. In several paintings and drawings all called The Nightmare-whose principal characters are variously a monstrous dwarf, a leering horse and a recumbent maiden-Fuseli seems as modern as Dali or Freud. Despite his inescapable similarity to his great friend ("Blake," he once said, "is damned good to steal from"), Fuseli speaks to the U.S. audience in his own peculiar and terrifying...