Michelangelo’s Horned Moses
https://clarespark.com/2014/06/08/narcissism-healthy-vs-unhealthy/
https://clarespark.com/2013/03/11/do-paleoconservatives-want-a-theocracy/ (some authoritarian anti-Freudians)
https://clarespark.com/2013/03/10/what-remains-useful-about-freud/
https://clarespark.com/2013/02/23/peter-gays-freud/ (Freud’s map of the mind as possibly influenced by the French Revolution)
https://clarespark.com/2013/03/02/free-speech-and-the-internet/
https://clarespark.com/2013/02/21/discovery-anxiety/
https://clarespark.com/2013/02/14/is-there-a-culture-of-violence/
https://clarespark.com/2012/01/15/prometheus-bound-but-good/
https://clarespark.com/2011/11/12/the-woman-question-in-saul-bellows-herzog/
https://clarespark.com/2012/03/26/henry-a-murray-and-the-tat/ (index of blogs that abuse Freud to grow state power; Freud was about emancipation from illegitimate authority)
https://clarespark.com/2012/02/25/moral-atheists/
https://clarespark.com/2010/04/22/links-to-blogs-on-military-psychiatry/
https://clarespark.com/2009/08/24/the-people-is-an-ass-or-a-herd/ (aristocratic views of “the People”)
https://clarespark.com/2009/11/16/panic-attacks-and-separation-anxiety/
https://clarespark.com/2009/08/25/t-w-adorno-and-his-funny-idea-of-genuine-liberalism/
https://clarespark.com/2009/07/13/eros-and-the-middle-manager-s-m-with-implications-for-multiculturalism/ (on the pervasiveness of S-M in popular culture)
https://clarespark.com/2009/09/19/populism-progressivism-and-corporatist-liberalism-in-the-nation-1919/ (anti-Freud in The Nation, 1919)
https://clarespark.com/2009/08/19/noam-chomskys-misrepresentation-of-walter-lippmanns-chief-ideas-on-manufacturing-consent/ (Lippmann read Freud).
Why do I come down on the side of the Freudians, when it would be more expedient to join in the demonization of Freud so common all along the political spectrum? Here is what Freud wrote about his teacher Charcot, in an obituary: “‘He was not a reflective man, not a thinker: he had the nature of an artist—he was, as he himself said, a ‘visuel’, a man who sees. Here is what he himself told us about his method of working. He used to look again and again at the things he did not understand, to deepen his impression of them day by day, till suddenly an understanding of them dawned on him. […]. He might be heard to say that the greatest satisfaction a man could have was to see something new — that is, to recognize it as new; and he remarked again and again on the difficulty and value of this kind of ‘seeing’.” [Quoted in Ilse Grubrich-Simitism, Early Freud and Late Freud, p.17]
Prometheus as shown by a “white nationalist”
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