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...driven search has been no inner exploration of himself. It is an outward search for man's greatness. His interest is Man in a world of facts and action, the world's heroes, not its spiritual cripples or its Freudian oddities. To psychiatry's claim, "Man is what he hides, a wretched little pile of secrets," Malraux returns a proud answer, "Man is what he achieves...
Spare the Freud and save the child, says Dr. Douglas McGlashan Kelley, professor of criminology at the University of California, who was chief psychiatrist at the Nürnberg trials. Misunderstanding and misapplication of Freudian theory, Dr. Kelley told a summer session at Fresno State College last week, have made parents neurotically fearful of turning their children into neurotics. As a result, he said, the U.S. today may be producing a smaller proportion of neurotics, but it is harvesting a bumper crop of psychopaths, which is worse...
...conviction that both civilization and art depend on a far-seeing law and order. Mysticism, "unconscious'" expression, addled emotionalism are his .pet hates. He stands up for personal "consciousness" in an epoch in which civilization has half-drowned itself in mass emotion and the seas of the Freudian unconscious. As long ago as 1914 Wyndham Lewis was pouring curses upon Mother Nature and shaggy beards, arguing that master gardeners and stern hairdressers are the truest symbols of civilization...
Feeling that in the modern world the social graces are just nothing without a touch of psychology, the author includes incisive definitions of common Freudian terms...
Involved in the mix-up are a possessive mother, Yvonne, who in true Freudian fashion does not want her 22-year-old son to marry; her sister Claire, who has always been in loves with George, Yvonne's husband; George and Yvonne; and a young woman named Madeleine, whom Michael wants to marry but who, it turns out, has also been loved by Michael's father, George. Now such a situation would, without doubt, wreak confusion in even the most rational of families. When you consider, then, that at least two of Cocteau's characters are not only irrational...