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The key question regarding Freud, says Rosenstock-Huessy (In the Cross of Reality<\/em><\/a>, 266), is \u201cWhom did Freud obey when he began to develop his theory?\u201d<\/p>\n

The question arises because \u201cin Freud\u2019s relational system there is no place for Sigmund Freud\u2019s own experience.\u201d He shares this distinction of an un-theorized self with Schopenhauer, Marx, and Nietzsche. None of them has a place for himself \u201cas originators, as authors, as Yous<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not a foregone conclusion that such seminal figures (\u201cnew souls,\u201d as Rosenstock calls them). \u201cAn ethereal spirit like Marx could not be tolerated\u201d in the classless society he hopes for. The mere fact that \u201cthere can be Freuds living among us is clearly a more important fact than psychoanalysis\u201d (266).<\/p>\n

Freuds can only arise when they glimpse a unity in the complexity of human experience, a unity that Freud thinks to be impossible. A Freud has to be \u201ccalled by a new imperative to be a bearer. He put himself forward as the model [Vor-Wurf<\/em>] for all mankind, as a preject. He withstood the mandate. Such mandates \u2018exist.\u2019 He replied wholeheartedly to the call,\u201d and as a result of his response to the You he became an I and gave birth to a \u201cwe,\u201d the psychoanalytic movement. In short, \u201cHe embodied himself gramatically and traversed his You, I, and We. Now he stands before us as an objective He\u201d (266). Yet, Rosenstock says, there is nothing in Freudian theory that can make sense of such a coherent development.<\/p>\n

Rosenstock calls Freud a \u201cgravedigger\u201d of bourgeois decadence: \u201cFreud created an alternate Cross of Reality with his Ego, external world, Super-ego, and Id, because the surrounding reality of 1880 was falling apart. Freud felt it falling apart, and he felt the decadence of Viennese society. . . . although most gravediggers just shovel their corpses into the grave, this ingenious gravedigger of bourgeois\u00a0society laid bare its anatomy\u201d (267).<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"