C of L49, that ending of uncertainty; more uncertainty

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Erich Fromm, a wake-of-Freud psychoanalyst and social critic; a Freud critic--one of the first to point out that post WW1 Freud---kinda crucial historical marker for OBA---had fundamentally changed his vision of the dynamics of the human psyche. After WW1, Freud saw Life vs. Death instincts....carried to the visionary limits by another TRP fave, Norman O. Brown decades later; popular in English in TRPs time whose most-famous book [see below] might also be said to argue that we human beings 
HAVE to live with uncertainty in our modern world since 'all that is solid melts into air"---Marx.  (Fromm "praised" the time period of history that Henry Adams, another TRP fave, loved in "Mont-Saint Michel and Chartres".)  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Fromm

Fromm's most well-known work, "Escape from Freedom", focuses on the human urge to seek a source of authority and control upon reaching a freedom that was thought to be an individual’s true desire.--wikipedia


I also just want to end this by repeating my observation about "Rasselas"
--a book that we know TRP wrote superbly about at Cornell; which last chapter is entitled "A conclusion in which nothing is concluded". 
"It was a paper discussing Samuel Johnson’s Rasselas in conjunction with Voltaire’s Candide. And the paper ended with these sentences: "Like Candide, Rasselas ends on an imperative note: again, to submit; but above that, to endure. It leaves us with less hope than Voltaire, but with more determination." ---Prof Abrams to Charles Hollander, via letter

And TRP had to know Waiting for Godot? Who never shows. Yes? (or I could have written No?,-- with less hope and equal uncertainty)