Word: freuds
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IDEAS: Father Freud is under siege...
Auden's choice of figures from Greek mythology was intentional and appropriate. Perhaps Homer and Sophocles and the rest will prove, when all is said and done, better guides to the human condition than Freud. But he did not shy away from such competition...
...that was analyzed in the article, the cover question was posed dramatically in red type against a severe black background without illustration. We grazed the wording concept in 1989 with "Is Government Dead?" and revisited it for this issue's examination of the longevity of the beliefs of Sigmund Freud, who, as it happens, was a renowned advocate of God's nonexistence...
...Freud, of course, has been dead, literally, since 1939. What do we mean by using death as a metaphor in this way? Cover writer Paul Gray says the Freud story, like the cover on God, examines a system of thought "that is a matter of belief for millions but is coming under a particularly blistering attack at the moment. My purpose is not to debunk Freud and psychoanalysis but to assess the extent of his cultural legacy, which is vast. It is hard, although it may someday become necessary, to imagine our world without him." Speaking of debunking, Paul...
...cover terms, the purported demise of the deity lasted a mere 44 months. Our intentionally imitative cover line in December 1969 asked, "Is God Coming Back to Life?" In fact there is quite a consensus that God had never departed. As a precedent, that provides some comfort for Sigmund Freud's shrinking flock...