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...belittle the importance of our toes and because a talking bird could probably deliver on what it promised. So I replied yes, I would cut off my toes, "Well suppose the bird said to cut off your balls?" That was a very different question, not only because of the Freudian overtones, but because it really posed the problem: What would you do as a man to end the war in Vietnam? We all got silly then and pondered rather than the war, the concept of a talking bird, and then went off to study. But I had trouble, and spent...
Some of his sculptures are unmistakably phallic-the food blenders, for example, or toothpaste tubes. Others are based on female forms: the hamburgers, light switches, the soft version of Chrysler's 1935 Airflow. But every good Freudian knows all that without having to prowl within a sculptor's imagination. On the other hand, who could anticipate Oldenburg's explanation of his sculpture Raisin Bread, Sliced? "It was conceived as a sort of Parthenon and was also suggested by a picture I saw of Paris' Madeleine Church turning into a loaf of bread. The piece...
...deep psychological depression has hit the student movement this year. After the first round of rallies at the "red" department of sociology at Nanterre the past autumn, one marxistleninist who had never before talked in Freudian terms lamented to one old comrade, "you know what's wrong? Une maladie psychologique." A girl, an influential member of March 22. which fell apart over the summer, said simply, "I'm depressed." The result was political action by rote. Uninspired, the students mechanically applied the old tactics of May. They called the professors and cops dirty names, they occupied buildings and boycotted classes...
...denigrates Jules Michelet, the great French Romantic historian whose writings helped to "create" France's epic past. When Gramont describes French intellectual life, he gives a useful though jaundiced look at Descartes, including his life and times, his seminal Discours de la Méthode and the Freudian analysis of the philosopher's three dreams, which symbolized the difficulty of understanding the universe...
...with all manner of optional equipment. Eagle Shirtmakers' color-naming contest of five years ago-in which the winning entries included Foreseeable Fuchsia, God's Little Ochre and Hot Chestnut-was revived this spring by Young & Rubicam for Ford's Maverick. The car colors range from Freudian Gilt and Original Cinnamon to Anti-Establishmint...