Theatre/Theater

[Paul Mackin]

On Thu, 2 Mar 2000 Lycidas at worldnet.att.net wrote:

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> Paul Mackin wrote:
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> > Freud's favorite English poet was Milton.
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> I always though Freud's favorite poet was Sophocles.

Only his favorite ENGLISH poet. Loved Sophocles like he loved his mother.

I was only alluding to how Freud in his final writings warned
against difficulties inherent in trying to analyze society or a particular
culture such as the German pre-war culture--which P addresses himself
to--as far as rooting out societal neuroses or pathologies is concerned.
For Freud aggression was instinctual and individual. F didn't say
positively don't draw analogies between societal and individual
development--just said it would be difficult and that they
would be mere analogies.  Post Freudians sometimes felt otherwise.
It does seem to me and I've seen reference to it somewhere that the
aggression instinct is analogous also to Original Sin. Or better perhaps,
that Original Sin is an analogy for the the aggression instinct  with the
proviso that the aggression instinct is no felix culpa. (no redemption) 

			P.