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\"protest-shot-3\"<\/p>\n

Mervyn, we are obviously not going to agree<\/a>, since I suspect we are beginning from very different points and proceeding with very different assumptions. But here are a couple of specific points in response to your post.<\/p>\n

Freud acknowledged the role of desire in literature; indeed, it seems to be the motivating force for the creative imagination. For him the ego is \u201cthe hero of every daydream and every novel.\u201d This is the place where unsatisfied desires can be fulfilled.<\/p>\n

Second, I recognize that of course there are radical currents in Frye\u2019s thinking. But he resembles Freud in his \u201cconservative\u201d response to the student protest movements of the 1960s and early 1970s. The \u201cdisobedience, chaos, [and] disorder\u201d that prevailed on some campuses, encouraged by numerous faculty members, struck him as a betrayal of the true mission of the university. Ironically, Blake figured prominently in the pantheon of writers admired by student radicals (as did Freud, which, as you mention, Frye pointed out).<\/p>\n

He sometimes described himself\u2013perhaps to provoke his \u201ccultured despisers\u201d\u2013as a \u201cbourgeois liberal.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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