MARX, FREUD, ALCHEMY, AND ASTROLOGY.

MARX, FREUD, ALCHEMY, AND ASTROLOGY. There was a time when educated people devoted enormous amounts of time and effort in studying astrology and alchemy. Now, only a few historians learn about alchemy, but enormous resources are still devoted to astrology. I wonder which route the study of Marx and Freud will go. At the moment, it looks like it will be the route that astrology went.

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1 Response to MARX, FREUD, ALCHEMY, AND ASTROLOGY.

  1. Dick Weisfelder says:

    Should Freud and Marx really be linked? Neo-liberal economic theory and the collapse of the USSR seem to have doomed Marx. However, I wonder if this isn’t premature. A major economic crisis may promote re-evaluation of some of the core ideas that Philip alluded to in a previous post. Indeed Marx lives on in many elements of “post-modern” thought although it’s not fashionable to mention that too prominently.

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