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Feminists complain that Freud's view of women, as mercurial creatures with a deficient sense of moral standards, was downright misogynistic. Even some orthodox Freudians concede that his emphasis on sexuality as the root cause of all neuroses was too narrow. Nonetheless, Freud's ideas still have impact. Says Arnold...
Relatively little of Freud's voluminous work is devoted to the empirical study of clinical depression. His writings discuss only four patients who were known for certain to have suffered from major depression, and he published only one paper on the subject -- "Mourning and Melancholia" (1917) -- which contrasted ordinary grief...
But you don't have to know any of this to enjoy Turangalila. Written for large orchestra, including an eerie electronic instrument called the ondes martenot (memorably employed by Maurice Jarre in the score for Lawrence of Arabia), the symphony is like some fabulous beast howling in the collective unconscious...
Unfortunately, instead of a leveled playing field we get a portrait of the American wife as a self-deluded woman who is steeped more in the ethos of the '50s than the '90s, largely by her own unconscious design. Based on a slender sampling of unfaithful wives, Heyn makes sweeping...
But what young painter in his right mind would not want to be with Rembrandt? He was so fashionable that, as one of his more classical-minded contemporaries sourly complained, "artists were forced (if they wanted to have their work accepted) to accustom themselves to his manner of painting: even...