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Read it Here First! My Obit!
Read it Here First! My Obit! All this week, Jerry and I have been attending to what I call “Last Arrangements.” Though we’re not expecting to kick off any time soon, you never know, and one of the chores I’ve … Continue reading →
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Freud and Fraudulence
Freud and Fraudulence The New York Review of Books is the semi-monthly repository of tasteful opinion within the boundaries of what it is intellectually correct to think. The books under review are just the launching place for essays that are … Continue reading →
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Tagged "New York Review of Books", Abigail L. Rosenthal's "Getting Past Marx and Freud", abused children, Adolf Grunbaum, Anglophone philosophers, architect of the Taj Mahal, Authenticity, B. A. Farrell, Bernard Williams, bohemians, civilization and repression, co-ed dorms, Continental philosophers, creative people, cultural theory of everything, curing repression by repressing dissent, drugs and creativity, Elisabeth Roudinesco's "Freud: In His Time and Ours", feminine self-respect, feminine virtues, filial piety, Frederick Crews' "Freud: What Left?", Freud and manipulation, Freud and seduction, Freud and street insults, Freud and the unconscious, Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents, Freud's cocaine use, Freud's fictions, Freud's Moses and Monotheism, Freud's patients, Freud's The Future of an Illusion, Freud's theoretical claims, Freud's therapeutic claims, Freud’s Totem and Taboo, Freudian cure, Freudian definition of women, Freudian diagnosis, genius and neurosis, Greek lyric poets, Greek tragedy, holistic explanations, holistic thought world, imitative courtship styles, incestuous desires, intellectually correct, Lionel Trilling, Marcus Aurelius, Michelangelo, modesty, Montaigne, nineteenth-century novelists, Oedipus complex, ostracism, parent-child bond, Patrick Swales, penis envy, Plato, Plotinus, politically correct, psychic depths, psychoanalysis, received views, Rembrandt, repressed desires, Roger P. Greenberg, Ronsard, second-hand scripts, self-redemption, sexual explanation, Seymour Fisher, Shakespeare, shunning, Sigmund Freud, state of the art, the beast within, The Emperor Has No Clothes, the next big thing, the psalmists, unromantic advances, Vermeer
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“Defining Evil Away: Arendt’s Forgiveness”
Defining Evil Away
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Tagged Arendt and Heidegger, Bernard Williams, Rachel Varnhagen
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