[lbo-talk] Capitalism & Psychoanalysis

[Dennis Redmond]

> i haven't found any psych based
> literary criticism to have merit.  same with psych based historical
> biographies.

Both Erikson's "Gandhi's Truth" and Sartre's "The Family Idiot" do a fine
job of historicizing psychological concepts in fascinating and productive
ways.

I've often thought of Freud as the first great theorist of the consumer
culture.

-- DRR