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...Munich. In Carmina Burana, a 1936 cantata based on writings collected by a 13th century Benedictine monk, Orff used simple, vigorous tunes and choral chants to celebrate the joys of food, drink and love. He pared down to an even more stylized primitivism in his Antigonae (1947-48) and Oedipus der Tyrann...
...overtly political than other Baker books such as So This is Depravity. That work, Baker addicts will recall, answered the Big Questions--queries like "Is it true that [former president] Zachary Taylor liked to be spanked by older women?" (no) and "Wasn't George Washington once treated for an Oedipus complex?" (yes, but it was accidental), Instead, the revamped Almanac offers an hysterical social commentary on life in the '70s and '80s. In so doing, Baker proves without a doubt that he is back in the saddle...
...idea of infant sexuality and of the Oedipus complex can be accepted with a good deal more equinamity than the idea that the most precious and inviolate of entities--personal relations--is actually a messy jangle of misapprehensions, at best an uneasy truce between powerful solitary fantasy systems. Even for especially) romantic love is fundamentally solitary, and has as core a profound impersonality. The concept of transference at once destroys faith in personal relations and explains why they are tragic--we cannot knew each other... A horrible kind of predestination hovers over each new attachment we form. 'Only connect...
...title story of that collection leads off this regathering of many of the author's best-known works, including The Long Road to Ummera, The Bridal Night and My Oedipus Complex, one of the most amusing pieces ever written about a small boy's anger over having to share his mother with her husband. Guests of the Nation suppresses anger with a disillusionment that teeters on mawkishness. Belcher and Awkins are two British soldiers who have become rather friendly with their Irish nationalist captors. The order to execute the pair is carried out with misgivings, especially since...
Nevertheless, the men and women who laid the foundations of "the talking cure," as an early analysand called it, had to think of themselves as neutral observers of clinical evidence. Software like the id, the ego and the Oedipus complex became hardware; schools of thought grew into academies of dogma; schisms appeared; colleagues turned into cultists; and Wilhelm Reich, confusing metaphor with reality, saw space invaders...