Word: freuds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trappings of civilization were put aside, he believes, all repressions would go with them. Man could then attain a golden age of sexuality-not just of the genital variety, which in itself, he believes, imposes a kind of tyranny-but of the uninhibited, innocent sexuality that, according to Freud, controls man's actions from womb to tomb...
Eternal Eros. Pure Freudians are rare nowadays, but Brown is so worshipful that he applies Freudian interpretations where Freud never reached. He justifies this by seeing Freud as a Columbus who had time to go so far on uncharted seas and no farther. Some times Brown makes slight alterations in Freud's pioneering map when he feels it is necessary, but more often he exalts him. Says he in Love's Body: "There is only one political problem in our world today: the unification of mankind. That they may be one-ut unum sint. This is Christ...
...Wrote Freud, in 1930: "Men have brought their powers of subduing the forces of nature to such a pitch that by using them they could now very easily exterminate one another to the last man. They know this-hence arises a great part of their current unrest, their dejection, their mood of apprehension. And now it may be expected that the other of the two 'heavenly forces,' eternal Eros, will put forth his strength so as to maintain himself alongside his equally immortal adversary." Adds Norman Brown: "Freud and Marx and Pope John: the thing is to bring...
...past three decades, the U.S. theater has dashed from the barricade to the bedroom, from a flirtation with Marx to an infatuation with Freud. The social-protest school, including Clifford Odets, Irwin Shaw and Lillian Hellman, recessed when it lost its villain. The Depression took its critics with...
...Creator and sharing his attributes is no longer possible." The decline began, Harper suggests, with Copernicus and Galileo, who demonstrated that the earth was not the center of the universe and that man is therefore not the center of creation. Darwin described man as a pawn of evolution, Freud as a puppet of the unconscious, Marx and other determinists as a prisoner of an abstraction called history. "Show our critics a great man, a Luther for example," complained Carlyle. "He was the 'creature of the Time,' they say; the Time called him forth, the Time did everything...