BEER Group Read. Otto Kugelblitz

[Mark Kohut]

" a cross street where Law & Order had not yet filmed on"....showing the ubiquitiousness of THAT show---
it is ALWAYS on somewhere on cable, right?....and that it is about that crime and justice topic, showing Americans
proclivity for the subject---perhaps in a way traceable to Nixon's campaign phrase which helped carry him to victory as
he rode the societal resentment of 60s character types into the Presidency. 
And then proceeded to overturn law & order. 
 
p. 2 is where I first laughed not LOL, since I'm still a recovering Puritan, but chuckled inwardly
and smiled outwardly, I hope:
 
Otto's recapitulation theory, which has Freud scuttling him from the Inner Circle---this happened to lots of analysts
of course, not least Jung---with a "Great time to be finding THAT out" i.e. that death is actually, finally, sanity. 
Notions of Freud's concept of the death wish; N.O. Brown's attempt to overturn THAT, i.e. the death wish "theory"
roll around my head but most, the surface joke that life itself is the opposite of being 'sane"......
 
and all of Dr. Kugelblitz's normal stages of life (as expressed) can create a lucrative, lifelong practice in a city like NY where
so many go to shrinks to discuss......everything negative in their life and mind. 
 
Analysts make a living treating the problems of life (In NYC) and his school recapitulates his theory grade by grade. 
Talk about school as "adjustment to life"....Or, in that good line "a loony bin with homework, basically"....
 
wit with meaning.....
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