The Reality Drive - Boston Review
The Reality Drive: A History in Case Studies (Dr. Naomi Ehrlich’s Unpublished Manuscript, 1963-1968), Annotated and Expanded with Supplementary Materials and Commentary Dr. Elena Marchetti (editor), et. al. Negative Transference Press, 1,277 pp., $449.95 I. In the early summer of 1965, on the morning after Ali knocked out Liston with his phantom punch, a curious paper appeared in the pages of Volume Seven, Issue Five of Phenomenography Studies Quarterly, a leading academic journal of the time. The paper, entitled “The Three Negations,” was by Dr. Naomi Ehrlich: a forty-one-year-old psychoanalyst who had never before published outside of her field. It argued that the human race lacked the technological capacity to distinguish fact from fiction. For years, Ehrlich explained, she had heard how the United States was passing through a time of chaos. Rock and roll and race riots, the Kennedy assassination, the war in Vietnam: the world was spinning out of control and consensus reality was co
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