Saturday, August 19, 2006

Freud and the Fundamentalist Urge

"According to Freud, we crave strong leaders whose simple dictrines will account for our sufferings, identify our enemies, focus our energies and give us, more enduring than wine or even love, a sense of being whole."
From "Freud and the Fundamentalist Urge" by Mark Edmundson
New York Times Magazine, pp 15-18. April 30, 2006

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