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LETTERS OF SIGMUND FREUD (470 pp.)- Selected and edited by Ernst L. Freud -Basic Books...
Lives of great men are far less sublime than Longfellow thought, and their letters often prove it. If Sigmund Freud had not put his genius into psychoanalysis, even his son Ernst would have seen small reason to assemble this bundle of his father's correspondence, some of it already mined by Ernest Jones in his famed biography of the Master. Freud's letters are not brilliant, witty, or especially intimate. But their truculent honesty makes for a paradoxical and amusingly human revelation. The dedicated psychologist of sex was no sophisticate, but a square...
What critics exhume is seldom the writer who was buried. Where Goethe found perversity and disease, critics today find "true greatness," "a hero of the modern spirit," a precursor of Stendhal, Freud, D. H. Lawrence and Franz Kafka. Thomas Mann, Germany's greatest 20th century novelist, calls Von Kleist in the preface (written in 1955) to this book a "storyteller of the very first order." In this first English translation of his collected stories, the proofs are not always convincing. The compulsive violence that runs through these tales (notably Michael Kohlhaas, The Earthquake in Chile...
...music of Claude Debussy is the key to the "cross-fertilization of musical and poetic values that formed a fusion of the arts," a British musicologist maintained yesterday in the first Louis C. Elton lecture. Critic, scholar and composer, Edward Lockspeiser spoke on "Debussy, Poe and Freud: a New Approach to the Music of Cur Time...
While Lockspeiser claimed no direct personal influence of Freud on Debussy he maintained that Debussy's musical psychology, most prominent in Peleas et Meilsande, was closely attuned to the ideas Freud was then developing...