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Tuesday, September 26, 2017

MAYBE DICK BREAST WAS A FREUDIAN SLIP! LET'S TALK BRIEFLY ABOUT THE FREUDIAN LEFT

What a sad, long forgotten, episode in American intellectual life!
 
Marcuse, Wilhelm Reich (maybe Robert's great uncle?)....
 
One Dimensional Man, Eros and Civilization, The Function of the Orgasm, nonsense like that. I was an authority. What a lot of ridiculous hooey, in retrospect: the ideal, a free play of faculties among an enormous number (6 billions) of  good equally poor but happy joyous godless people the world over.
 
At least with, say, Freud, one didn't have a double dimension whacko whammy! With the Freudian Left, you had layers....

It was way to the left of, say, Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies...(but with Plato, a conservative, you nevertheless had a sort of ancient Greek twist on what the Freudian Left called the free play of faculties!)

I had already read all the important Ayn Rand, on the right, before then, say age 17, so I was well equipped to banter with either side on something more than an equal footing....

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