[beckett]

Here's the quote for those who choose not to follow the link:

""He called legalized abortion "an odorless flush-away world indifferent to life...""

[vimto]

Yep, followed the link and a very interesting read it is especially for someone from the UK ignorant of this chap - though Susan Sontang is on our radar.

Freud's real legacy is probably in the arts and it's criticism.

Freud has never made much of an impact on psychiatry in the UK. His initial assertion that the woman with conversion hysteria could not all have been sexually molested by their fathers was manifestly a judgment of it's day and would be highly questionable now.

One could make a case that the edifice of pyschoanalalysis was an attempt by Freud to justify to himself his affair with his wife's sister.

His vision was godless and life enervating.