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...Freudian Couch (Contd...
...Freudian Couch...
...mystic-sounding terms Id, Ego and Superego are just so much Anglo-American psychiatric jabberwocky for simple concepts. In his native German, Freud used understandable terms: es, ich and überich-literally translatable as the it, the I and the beyond-I. This kind of linguistic lily-gilding by Freudian exponents is the stuff that cultism is made...
Your story on Freud (with another wonderful portrait by Ben Shahn) has probably done more to inform embarrassed non-Freudian cocktail conversationalists than 20 hours of college lectures could. Your text served mainly to point out one glaring id-ego-syncrasy in Freud's primary approach: if he had only asked the question "Why am I?" rather than "What am I?" his searching would have led eventually to the soul-triumphant symbol of the Cross rather than the sex-triumphant symbol of the couch...
...restless an explorer to remain content with his theories, worked until his death on amendments and additions. He was far less tolerant toward others' discontent with his theories, bitterly opposed some followers' deviations, but might well have accepted others that have developed since. Some rudiments of the Freudian main theme and principal variations...