Slow Learner again. I find THIS very interesting. Young P on Freudianism

[Mark Kohut]

Flange is not as concerned with the greedy cost of his analysis with Diaz
"than with the dim suspicion he was somehow being cheated: it may have been
that he considered himself a legitimate child of his generation, and, Freud
having been mother's milk for
that generation, he felt he was learning nothing new."

Freud was the mother's milk of a certain social and esp intellectual class
for postwar America
and, of course, TRP would know and have absorbed that. And learned its
attitude to
self-understanding and its psychic discoveries.
 And soon would want to go much beyond that 'nothing newness' by
reading and being influenced deeply by Life Against Death, Brown's Beyond
Freudianism
to the max as seen in GR.

GR p. 411: follows seance words:
...[They] pick up the reflexes of Intent to Gawk; self-criticism is an
amazing technique, it shouldn't work but it does"..
...
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