>I don't think sophisticated Marxian theory (including that of the
>MANIFESTO, if I remember correctly, which allows individual bourgeois
>to change class allegiance) pretends to be able to explain the
>behavior of indivdiduals. It's more of a form of structural analysis,
>which is partly expressed statistically.
It was Sartre's project in 1950s and 60s to explain individual life (Genet or Flaubert) on the basis of Marxist theory supplemented with sociology and psychoanalyses (Ref.: Sartre's book The Question of Method).
On Freud: There is Sartre's interesting screenplay, Freud Scenario written for Hollywood director John Huston.
Ulhas