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Psycho-Analysis and Marxism

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Source: The Labour Monthly, Vol. 19, July 1937, No. 7, pp. 435-437, (1,998 words) Transcription: Ted Crawford HTML Markup: Brian Reid Public Domain: Marxists Internet Archive (2010). You may freely copy, distribute, display and perform this work; as well as make derivative and commercial works. Please credit “Marxists Internet Archive” as your source. In the decade after the war Freud’s theories dominated the narrow circles of British intellectuals. His psycho-analysis was accepted warmly for many reasons. It was new and exciting, it was shocking, it debunked religion and morals, it promised an internal liberation from all restraints. Nevertheless, it was essentially a creed of escape into an inner world of complexes and repressions and away from social and economic realities. In recent years the Freudian wave has begun to recede. The effects of the world economic crisis of capitalism, and of the close menace of fascism and war, startled the intellectual strata into awareness of the ob

Psycho-Analysis and Marxism JD Bernal Psycho-Analysis and Marxism 1 Source: The Labour Monthly , Vol. 19, July 1937, No. 7, pp. 435-437, (1,998 words) Transcription: Ted Crawford HTML Markup: Brian Reid Public Domain: Marxists Internet Archive (2010). You may freely copy, distribute, display and perform this work; as well as make derivative and commercial works. Please credit “Marxists Internet Archive” as your source. In the decade after the war Freud’s theories dominated the narrow circles of British intellectuals. His psycho-analysis was accepted warmly for many reasons. I

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