Sigmund Freud
Today, thanks to Freud, the man-on-the-street knows (to quote by an inaccurate memory from Punch) that, when he thinks a thing, the thing he thinks is not the thing he thinks he thinks, but only the thing he thinks he thinks he thinks. Fifty years ago, a girl who sprained her ankle on the eve of a long-looked-forward-to ball, or a man who suffered from a shrewish wife, could be certain of the neighbors’ sympathy; today the latter will probably decide that misfortune is their real pleasure. READ MORE >>
Sigmund Freud
W.H. Auden Sigmund Freud October 6, 1952 READ MORE >>
Rilke in Wartime
Tradition and Value
A review of The Novel and the Modern World, by David Daiches. READ MORE >>
Jacob and the Angel
A review of Behold This Dreamer, by Walter de la Mare. READ MORE >>
Rilke in English
A review of Duino Elegies, by Rainer Maria Rilke. Not the least interesting phenomenon of the last four years has been the growing influence of Rilke upon English poetry: indeed, Rilke is probably more read and more highly esteemed by English and Americans than by Germans, just as Byron and Poe had a greater influence upon their German and French contemporaries than upon their compatriots. READ MORE >>
