Peter Watson Quotes

...for Example, If Freud Is Wrong, As I And Many Others Believe, Where Does That Leave Any Number Of Novels And Virtually The Entire Corpus Of Surrealism, Dada, And Certain Major Forms Of Expressionism And Abstraction, Not To Mention Richard Strauss' 'Freudian' Operas Such As Salome And Elektra, And The Iconic Novels Of Numerous Writers Such As D.H. Lawrence, Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann And Virginia Woolf? It Doesn't Render These Works Less Beautiful Or Pleasurable, Necessarily, But It Surely Dilutes Their Meaning. They Don't Owe Their Entire Existence To Psychoanalysis. But If They Are Robbed Of A Large Part Of Their Meaning, Can They Retain Their Intellectual Importance And Validity? Or Do They Become Period Pieces? I Stress The Point Because The Novels, Paintings And Operas Referred To Above Have Helped To Popularise And Legitimise A Certain View Of Human Nature, One That Is, All Evidence To The Contrary Lacking, Wrong.

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