--- joanna bujes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Freud does not constitute the alpha and omega of > psychoanalysis, just > one of its more conservative currents. For more > forward looking work, > look to Otto Fenichel, Thomas Szasz, Reich, Laing, > etc. > > Joanna
Agreed. But I think he made a cogent observation about the nature of the happiness of the "free" individual in class dominated versions of civilization: > Herbert Marcuse wrote: > >> >its development prior to the First World War, > >psychoanalysis elaborated the concepts for the > >psychological critique of the most highly praised > >achievement of the modem era: the individual. > Freud demonstrated that constraint, repression, and > >renunciation are the stuff from which the free > >personality is made; he recognized the general > >unhappiness of society as the unsurpassable limit > of cure and normality. Razing Consciousness by yours truly (to the tune of "Pop Goes the Weasel") Bitch on the job and then go home Turn on, tune in, zone out >From cradle to grave Electric eyes Flick in your own Shoot souless rays And time tested lies Through all the Dicks and Janes The moral of this old re-run Spin's on the wage-slaves Your flattened, empty, plasticized lives Repeat the corporate game Wake up to work, complain then go home Flash! goes amnesia Forget the pain And don't organize It's television pleasure Then off to work to agonize And sweat for capital's gain ===== **************************************************************** Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen. Norman Mailer http://profiles.yahoo.com/swillsqueal __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html
