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...BASIC WRITINGS OF SIGMUND FREUD-Edited by Dr. A. A. Brill-Modem Library...
Among scientists the theories of Sigmund Freud are still disputed, most vigorously by former. Freudians. But modern novelists have followed him like children after the Pied Piper. His influence has been the greatest single factor in determining the course of modern fiction, and future literary historians may well refer to Joyce and Mann as great Freudians in the way that Thackeray and George Eliot are now called great Victorians. Freud has exercised a greater literary influence than any other living writer. His 35 volumes are packed with literary allusions, with shrewd criticisms on poetry and fiction, with case histories that...
Last week readers had a chance to see for themselves where Freud stood as a writer, when his faithful disciple, Dr. Abraham Arden Brill, brought out a handy, 1,001-page collection of six of his major works. The demonstration was not quite fair to Freud. For Dr. Brill included as Freud's basic writing heavy, abstract works like his Totem and Taboo, which is an important contribution to psychoanalytic theory, but hard reading for laymen. He left out such Freudian classics as The Case of Miss Elisabeth R, and The Case of Miss Lucy R. These early works...
...Freud's writings are always dramatic. In the world that he pictures, man's ego is always at war with his unconscious; sons are at war with their fathers; man's sexual instinct, as deeply rooted as his hunger for food, is at war with the norms and conditions of social life. And contrary to the usual impression, most of Freud's writing deals with the simplicities and not with the abnormalities of human experiences: with people sleeping, dreaming, blundering and forgetting, not with sexual aberrations and sexual crimes...
...typical caption is "Never mind Plato. . . . What does Freud say about it?" The Misses Doris Lutz and Helen Weston both treat humorously the plights and peeves of the Radcliffe girl...