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The Darwinian Left |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Lee Congdon |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1987 |
| Size: 3,907 Words, 23,586 Characters |
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THE MANUFACTURE OF EVIL
Lionel Tiger
New York: Harper & Row, 1987
345 pp., $20.50
During the decade of the 1960s, radical theorists worked overtime to reclaim Freud for the camp of progress. I say "reclaim" because the Viennese neurologist had burst on the cultural scene as a prophet of scientific enlightenment and a sworn enemy of hypocrisy and obscurantism, particularly those forms that religious authorities were said to retail. Owing to the insights of psychoanalysis, he believed that he was uniquely qualified to dismiss religion as an illness, "the universal obsessional neurosis of humanity." Once necessary to curb men's instincts in the interest of communal harmony, creedal faiths had become anachronisms in an age of science and reason. With this message, Freud won a repu...
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...e exactly, the small-scale system that distinguished the golden age. A species that sleeps together stays together! Strange, or perhaps not so strange, that this notion recalls the prescriptions that the Freudian left and other sexual radicals offered during the sixties. "Make love, not war," they chanted, while like Tiger, they forgot that only persons make love. Animals merely have sex.
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