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...behavior can be understood only by first understanding his emotions, and that the key to emotional conduct is observation of physiological reactions. From this starting-point he goes on to consider Freud's analysis of the individual mind and to apply it to society as a whole. The accepted Freudian terms, id, ego, and superego, are used to describe the basic reasons for behavior in every social activity. In one of the chapters, revolutionary dialectic is explained by identifying Marx's thesis, antithesis, and synthesis with Frend's three terms...
...English Department will have decided that F. Scott Fitzgerald is far enough in the past to have theses written about him. History and Literature professors will speak of the strain of mysticism running from John Donne through T. S. Eliot to A. A. Milne and the Freudian significance of Terry and the Pirates. Members of the History Department will still be fired for speaking to members of the Sociology Department and vice versa, and the Economics Department will have crected a statue to J. M. Keynes in front of Holyoke House...
...sprawling human figures colored with the dull sheen of cast iron and stove polish. Weird, mystical canvases, as big as murals, showed mind-wrecking concepts like birth and death. Many, obscurely symbolic, writhed with brilliantly colored male and female figures, with fish and anthropomorphic bric-a-brac in a Freudian Walpurgisnacht...
...most degenerate of all degenerate European artists (according to Hitler) is having his biggest exhibition in the U.S. A one-man show of Czech Oskar Kokoschka opened last week in Manhattan's Buchholz Gallery-full of pictures of the Freudian subconscious which Nazi officials have condemned and exiled as politically dangerous...
Question is, did the well-known farmers of Manhattan deliberately intend same or was it one of those Freudian speech blunders whereby the truth involuntarily bursts forth...