Word: freuds
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...some 35 years after they were imported from Europe, Freudian theory and analysis have ruled the field of psychiatry in the U.S. Today many observers believe that their long domination is at an end. A vastly different and more anxious time has bred problems-and demanded solutions-that Freud never envisioned and that analysis was not designed to treat. The field of nonanalytic psychiatry has grown enormously in recent years-a fact that does not so much mean that psychoanalysis has lost ground as that its competitors have gained. Many younger psychiatrists, moreover, are displaying an increasing skepticism about...
...Style. Even Freud's daughter Anna, 73, the founder and director of the Hampstead Child Therapy Clinic in London and one of his school's most progressive heirs, sadly acknowledges that psychoanalysis seems to be going out of style. "Young people now are not interested in man's struggle against himself, but in man's struggle against society," she said last year in Manhattan. "They see that what psychoanalysis may lead to is adaptation to society. That's the last thing they have in mind...
...revolution in our attitude toward sex, Mr. Hefner had, alas, very little to do with it. It was inspired chiefly by Freud, D. H. Lawrence and Havelock Ellis. They made sex respectable, and Hefner made it profitable. If a man deserves to be remembered by posterity for that, then there is something fundamentally wrong somewhere...
Herbert Marcuse, in Eros and Civilization, has used Freud's pleasure and reality principles to achieve a formulation of the resolution of the disjunctive processes of society. He foresees the complete alienation of labor, the stage at which ultimate automation has eliminated all want and necessity and minimized, to the point of elimination, the need for work. Ultimate automation will obviate the values of productivity, utility, competition and mastery and domination of the human and non-human environments which are components of the Freudian reality principle, called by Marcuse "the performance principle." The reality principle, no longer a performance principle...
Marcuse is a contemporary extension of the rational, analytic tradition which included Freud. Laing is a contemporary representative of the mystical humanist tradition which, in the last two centuries, has produced such formidable anti-rationalists as Blake, Nietzsche, and Hesse. The position of Laing in this tradition is beyond the scope of this article; his parallels with Blake, Nietzsche and Hesse too numerous to summarize here...