The Corner

Freud

Us folks are Freud hunting again. In the lead is bluff British empiricism: “Can’t believe anything in a chap’s dreams, can you?” I await the science heads, who expect our salvation from pills. It makes me nostalgic for Erik von Kuehnelt Leddihn, of blessed memory, who saw that complicated man’s good sides.

Historian Richard Brookhiser is a senior editor of National Review and a senior fellow at the National Review Institute.
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