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...TIME, July 28). Not likely to quench the flames of controversy was an article in the Catholic weekly Commonweal by Catholic Psychologist Dr. Harry McNeill, prewar teacher at Fordham University, now a clinical psychologist in the Veterans Administration. Gist of the article: the Church has much to learn from Freud-and vice versa. Excerpts...
...fact is that Church scholars have given scant attention to parvenu Freud and extremely few Catholics have ever been analyzed. People who manifestly are unaware of the true nature of either psychoanalysis or confession have often facilely claimed that Catholics have confession, therefore do not need psychoanalysis. On the other hand, it is also curious to note the term 'absolution' appearing more and more frequently in psychoanalytic literature. . . . Whatever their similarities and differences, it is high time that Catholics and Freudians got together and swapped some of their trade secrets...
...Lucian Freud's blast at British painting [TIME, May 26] is not the first time one who found refuge in Britain has assailed the British. . . . The strange thing is that the very qualities which annoy such as he, account largely for Britain being a haven for the victims of intolerance in other countries. Mr. Freud's accusation that British art "is all just inspired sketching" caused me to look through a book of etchings by various British artists. Inspired is the right word...
...would be impertinent of me, however, to suggest that . . . Lucian Freud is ungrateful. He probably feels at home in England by now and is indulging in the old British privilege of free speech...
Austere Symbol. Half the subjects of Mann's essays are figures who are known to most Americans (Goethe, Tolstoy, Wagner, Cervantes, Schopenhauer, Freud); the others are likely to interest only a specializing minority. But there is no basic difference in Essayist Mann's approach to any one of them-and it is this constancy that unites them in one volume like assorted vegetables in one string...