Abstract
most persistent and baffling question raised by Freud's psy choanalytic work is, precisely, what was it that he gave us? Witt genstein's instructive answer is that he propounded a new myth. The attractiveness, he says, the suggestion . . . that all anxiety is a repetition of the anxiety of the birth trauma, is just the attractive ness of a mythology.11 must say that I find this the most promising hint about Freud's sprawling work and should like to explore its usefulness in a general way. I shall be more interested here in what might be called the shape of Freud's conception than in a detailed analysis of the tenability of any of his particular theories: I take this to have been Wittgen stein's concern as well. Also, in the spirit of the effort, I thumbed through the short Collected Papers of Freud's work to find nearly random specimens of his characteristic remarks on a variety of topics. They fall together very suggestively. For instance, in a paper, Anal Erotism and the Castration Complex, Freud confidently remarks:
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