First Things RSS Feed - Marjorie Rosenberg https://www.firstthings.com/author/marjorie-rosenberg en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:56:32 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/marjorie-rosenberg 60 Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man https://www.firstthings.com/article/2000/01/stiffed-the-betrayal-of-the-american-man https://www.firstthings.com/article/2000/01/stiffed-the-betrayal-of-the-american-man Sat, 01 Jan 2000 00:00:00 -0500

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]]> The Mindless Self: Freud Triumphant https://www.firstthings.com/article/1991/12/the-mindless-self-freud-triumphant https://www.firstthings.com/article/1991/12/the-mindless-self-freud-triumphant Sun, 01 Dec 1991 00:00:00 -0500 In the heat of the anguished nineteenth-century debate over evolutionary theory, Samuel Butler declared that Darwin had banished mind from the universe. But it was in fact Freud, with his insistence on sex as the fundamental force in human development, who delivered the death blow to man’s confidence in himself as a rational being. The act of thinking, distinguished by Aristotle as a peak of human experience, became in Freudian theory most notable as a neurotic exercise designed to inhibit awareness of instinctual needs. Excluded from this interpretation was, of course, the product of Freud’s mind—psychoanalytic theory itself.

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