[lit-ideas] Re: New Program in Psychoanalysis and Culture
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On 22-Jul-08, at 2:41 AM, David Wright wrote:
Jeepers! ... if you still believe in Freud, you likely still
believe in God.
d.
Or perhaps have substituted one for the Other? Cf.:
“Once upon a time,” the Director began, “while our Ford was still on
earth, ...".
...
“The case ... occurred only twenty-three years after Our Ford’s first
T-Model was put on the market.” (Here the Director made a sign of the
T on his stomach and all the students reverently followed suit.) “
...
His fordship Mustapha Mond! ... The Resident Controller for Western
Europe! ... There were those strange rumours of old forbidden books
hidden in a safe in the Controller’s study. Bibles, poetry — Ford knew
what.
...
Our Ford–or Our Freud, as, for some inscrutable reason, he chose to
call himself whenever he spoke of psychological matters ....
[Aldous Huxley, _Brave New World_ (1932)]
Chris Bruce
Kiel, Germany
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