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Romantic Revolt. Freudian psychology, or its popularized version, became one of the chief forces that combined against Puritanism. Gradually, the belief spread that repression, not license, was the great evil, and that sexual matters belonged in the realm of science, not morals. A second force was the New Woman, who swept aside the Victorian double standard, which was partly based on the almost universally held notion that women-or at any rate, ladies-did not enjoy sex. One eminent doctor said it was a "foul aspersion" on women to say they did. The celebrated 2nd century Physician Galen...
...most curious and original writers in the U.S. today, John Cheever continues to be underestimated. The Wapshot Chronicle received the National Book Award. But Cheever is neither chic nor shocking, and no critical claque inflates his reputation. He is neither politically opinionated nor a Freudian, and the sex he celebrates is freakishly normal, occurring at its best in the connubial...
FATHERS TO SONS, edited by Alan Valentine. The real rattlers in this fine and funny collection of letters to famous sons from their fathers are understandably pre-Freudian. Characteristically fatherly is Heinrich Marx's letter to Son Karl: "Instead of writing a lot about Capital, make a lot of Capital...
FATHERS TO SONS, edited by Alan Valentine. The real rattlers in this fine and funny collection of letters to famous sons from their fathers are understandably pre-Freudian. Characteristically fatherly is Heinrich Marx's letter to Son Karl: "Instead of writing a lot about Kapital, make a lot of Kapital...
...Freudian days, Author Valentine points out, fathers were often considerably freer and franker with their advice than they are today. He includes Benjamin Franklin's famed advice in 1745, listing the advantages of an elderly mistress: "The pleasure of corporal enjoyment with an old woman is at least equal and frequently superior, every knack being by practice capable of improvement." The Earl of Pembroke, anxious to see his son restore the family fortunes by settling into a good marriage instead of a military career, writes with Georgian bluntness: "I wish you would draw, not your sword, but your precious...