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Freud and the Educationists

Mr. Richard LaPiere, professor of sociology at Stanford and editor of the McGraw-Hill series in sociology and anthropology, has just published an important and courageous book: The Freudian Ethic, an Analysis of the Subversion of American Character (Duell, Sloan & Pearce, $5.00). The Protestant ethic (a term borrowed from Max Weber), Dr. LaPiere writes, is being supplanted by the Freudian ethic—that is, a coddling of the human person in the delusion that man is happiest when he is almost back in the womb.

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Russell Kirk

Freud and the Educationists

Mr. Richard LaPiere, professor of sociology at Stanford and editor of the McGraw-Hill series in sociology and anthropology, has just published an important and courageous book: The Freudian Ethic, an Analysis of the Subversion of American Character (Duell, Sloan & Pearce, $5.00). The Protestant ethic (a term borrowed from Max Weber), Dr. LaPiere writes, is being supplanted by the Freudian ethic—that is, a coddling of the human person in the delusion that man is happiest when he is almost back in the womb.