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and bureaucrats in this generation, they will become such liberated
beings as to give up their class-privileges when they come to maturity
in the next generation. But this, I submit, is mere sexual Fabianism;
and as a desertion of revolutionary "purity," it would have to be
characterized-if I may be permitted to borrow the terms of Dwight
Macdonald-as "progressive" rather than "radical."
Goodman's imagination seems to swarm with notions of ·such exotic
unions: he would also marry Rousseau to Freud. It would be difficult
to find a more incompatible pair, since Freud is the last man to be
saddled with a belief in a state of primal innocence and in a human
nature intrinsically good; he has some very disparaging comments on
human nature on the instinctual level, as well as some remarks on the
necessity of repressions-which Goodman might look into. "Where id
was, there shall ego be," Freud says! which Goodman slightly revises to:
"Where ego is, there' shall id be."
But
if
Goodman has misread Freud, Freud has already read him
correctly: on several occasions Freud expressed concern that his theory,
because of the prominence given to sex, would be debased and sensa–
tionalized by intellectual adventurers and playboys.
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