Sigmund Freud

If capitalism had been build on sexual repression, as Freud and Herbert Marcuse and Norman O. Brown believed, then the best way to help people to get in touch with their true animal nature was to foment an anti-capitalist revolution.

So, people went out and joined the counterculture. They renounced the standard American middle class existence and lived as rebellious free spirits.

But when the revolution did not arrive on schedule, countercultural warriors had to find an alternative reward. --Stuart Schneiderman, You're Entitled to Great Sex! posted at Had Enough Therapy? January 12, 2009 (via Althouse)


Freud and Ann by Mark Edmundson, on his The Death of Sigmund Freud, The Chronicle Review, September 21, 2007 (via Arts & Letters Daily)

Killing Father Freud, Adam Kirsch on Philip Rieff, The New York Sun, March 7, 2007 (via Milt's File)

An Interview With Freud Biographer Peter D. Kramer, Paul Comstock interviews the author of Freud: Inventor of the Modern Mind, California Literary Review, January 29, 2007 (via Milt's File)

Hotel log hints at desire that Freud didn't repress, by Ralph Blumenthal, International Herald Tribune, December 24, 2006 (via Arts & Letters Daily)

Freud's Will to Power by Ronald W. Dworkin, New York Sun, November 29, 2006 (via Arts & Letters Daily)

There is no cure, review by Michael Wood of The Penguin Freud Reader, by Sigmund Freud, edited by Adam Phillips, London Review of Books, July 6, 2006

Can Freud Get His Job Back? In the age of happy pills and quick fixes, the 'talking cure' still has something to offer, by Lev Grossman, Time, January 20, 2003

Scientist or storyteller? by A. C. Grayling. Guardian, June 22, 2002

How Fabrications Differ from a Lie, review by Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen of Der Fall Freud: Die Geburt der Psychoanalyse aus der Luge by Han Israels, translated by Gerd Busse, London Review of Books, April 13, 2000

The Man Behind the Curtain, by Edward T. Oakes, First Things, January 1999

The Use and Abuse of Freud, by Paul C. Vitz, First Things, February 1993