Dollfuss, the Austrian clerical fascist. Those curious polymorphous Freudian deviants like Herbert Marcuse and Norman O. Brown, who have managed to combine the worst of Freud and the worst of Marx in a willful utopian fantasy, would have met with Freud’s unrelenting hostility. In short, it was Freud’s objective to free men so that they might confront the exterior world more successfully and at a cost far less destructive to themselves than had hitherto been the case. Freud rightly regarded himself as a great civilizational hero.
How did it happen, then, that Freud’s theories have had an almost totally contrary impact? How does it happen that the impact of Freudianism has resulted in a kind of mindless permissiveness, an anticultural preoccupation with the primitive, an antirational inclination to the mystical, murky, and impulsive, and a sweeping cultivation of the inward that make engagement with exterior reality either unlikely or unsuccessful?
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