> Freud in _Civ. & Dis._ privileges _discontent_ and in that sense
> on the side of the poets despite his Scientism.
If I understand you I think you've got it wrong. Freud quite
clearly was on the side of repression. He says so repeatedly in so
many words.
Though N. Brown has argued, if I understand him, that Freud
unconsciously privileged discontent. Would this if true put him on
the side of the poets? Locus classicus is Euripides' Bacchae, which
I think represents civilization as compromise with madness. But I
probably don't understand it.
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But strength alone though of the Muses born
Is like a fallen angel: trees uptorn,
Darkness, and worms, and shrouds, and sepulchres
Delight it; for it feeds upon the burrs
And thorns of life; forgetting the great end
Of poesy, that it should be a friend
To soothe the cares and lift the thoughts of man.
-- Keats
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