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...those who think an optimistic Freudian is like a Swiss admiral, there is always Erik Erikson. Freud's vision, despite his promise of healing, was a dark one, overlaid with personal and cultural pessimism. Erikson, now 72 and in semiretirement in California, is probably the most influential living psychoanalyst and certainly the most optimistic thinker the Freudian tradition has produced. His famous work on religious leaders (Luther, Gandhi) attempts to show how men can use neurotic conflict for constructive social purposes while healing themselves in the process...
...delights in Freudian analysis of typographical slips of the finger, and points out tiresome puns at every opportunity. He even plays word golf, like Nabokov's Kinbote, only not as well: Golf, gold, good, gods, nods, nous, gnus, anus, Amos. "Eight strokes with some cheating and a one putt." It is as if Updike has been suppressing all this game-playing for years as self-indulgent and inappropriate, and now he has discovered the perfect way out--he can pin it on Marshfield in the name of character development...
Dabney's primary target was Brodie, who portrayed Jefferson in Freudian'terms as suffering from a guilt complex stemming from his paternity of mulatto children at Monticello. The trouble with that tidy theory, Dabney argued, is that it only works if Jefferson was indeed the father and he insisted that there is no reliable evidence to support that assertion-and much evidence to the contrary. Dabney enlisted statements from three Jefferson historians to refute the paternity claim. He said that Dumas Malone and Merrill Peterson of the University of Virginia and Julian P. Boyd, editor of the papers...
Impressive Photos. Deciding to write one herself, she produced a simplified Freudian commentary on child rearing and sex education, which runs as an appendix to the book. She also chose an American photographer, Will McBride, whose pictures for a German sexual encyclopedia published in the U.S. in 1971 as The Sex Book (Herder & Herder), had interested her. McBride took hundreds of technically impressive photos, mostly of friends' children between the ages of five and 13. The couples in the intercourse pictures, who appear to be about 13, are actually aged 19 and 20, McBride reports...
...Congress," and he sauntered off to a quarter-million dollar free ride to San Clemente "while daring greatly." Ford's inaugural speech, what he called "just a little straight talk among friends," is just as patronizingly obsequious as his predecessor's speeches. Again, the only interesting aspects are his Freudian slips: he tells us he comes to the Presidency "with full con...confidence," an ironic piece of self-criticism, and he also praises Nixon, the great man "who brought pee-eace to millions" in a broken voice that reflects either tear-jerking sentimentality or an uncharacteristic inability to tell...