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Appel bought the book Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria, by Sigmund Freud, for a first-year seminar...
...used by Malcolm were indeed false, but it ruled that Jeffrey Masson failed to prove a deliberate or reckless disregard for the truth -- a higher standard that applies to public figures under fire. The 1992 New Yorker article focused on Masson's firing as projects director of the Sigmund Freud Archives. After Masson's earlier win, the jury deadlocked on damages and a retrial was ordered. Although Malcolm may have been cleared, she was forced to reveal that she had compressed quotes from different interviews and presented them as part of one. "Even though she won a clear cut victory...
...times, the play's dialogue threatens to take on the hypnotic, oddly soporific rythmn of psychoanal-ese. Oddly enough, there's little psychology and almost no Freud in "Unrequited Love. Freudian Psychology and Other Small Tragedies," except in the suggestion of the main character's litany of vague neuroses. Save for a strange scene highlighting the Philip-Rothish mother's fixation with ear-cleaning...
...social scripts, how they are influenced by their social networks and how they make sexual bargains as if they were trading economic goods and services. "We were trying to make people think about sex in an entirely different way," says Kolata. "We all have this image, first presented by Freud, of sex as a riderless horse, galloping out of control. What we are saying here is that sex is just like any other social behavior: people behave the way they are rewarded for behaving...
Such guidance was once the province of religion, and it is ultimately the religious experience that Bloom seeks in secular writing: "Since I myself am partial to finding the voice of God in Shakespeare or Emerson or Freud, depending on my needs, I have no difficulty in finding Dante's Comedy to be divine." He amplifies this perception a bit later: "As a writer, Shakespeare was a sort of god." Bloom is entitled to his worship, since he has spent a lifetime of reading achieving it. But he is not, in The Western Canon, a very effective prophet...