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majority were middle-aged men, ill-nourished and dressed shabbily and
not warmly enough. Some of them wore thin raincoats over worn-out
wool vests; they were freezing, and screaming was a strain for them.
However, as one of them said, it also warmed them, and so that man
kept on screaming even as he shivered. This is what was said in the
speeches: Yes, the Bulowplatz belongs to us and the Karl Liebknecht
House even more so. The others are going to get their heads bashed in
and bloodied. Yes, the day is coming when the German proletariat will
square accounts with the capitalists and their lackeys; it will tell them
what's what in Russian, following the great example of the Bolsheviks .
Raise the £lag of Lenin, Stalin, and Thalmann! - Whenever it was time
to
yell
"Rot Front!"
at once threateningly and hopefully, everyone
clenched his fist; it was the "Amen" that interrupted the speeches at ap–
propriate places and finally concluded them.
As darkness fell, the wind became even colder and more biting; it
burst into the square from all sides and at times howled as it burrowed
between buildings. There were no clashes; no shots were fired, and thus
no one was injured. Those who did not live too far away were able to
get home in time for supper.
The Freudians
A Comparative Perspective
Edith Kurzweil
In this original and stimulating book, Edith
Kurzweil traces the ways in which psychoa·
nalysis has evolved in Austria, England,
France, Germany, and the United States.
Arguing that even the most orthodox
Freudians are influenced by their national
traditions, interests, and beliefs, Kurzweil
examines in detail how in each country the
insights of psychoanalysis have been modified
by the national culture and applied
to
psychoanalytic medicine, pedagogy, literary
studies, feminism, and politics.
"[An]
interesting, well thought-out, and
important book."-Peter Loewenberg
$35.
00
Yale University Press
Dept.
216, 92A Yale
Station, New Haven, CT
06520
