The Freudian left

"I think that the judgment on Freud, as well as on his creators so far, is on the conservative side; Freud has often been considered, along with Fehr, Durkheim, Pareto, and Spinger, as one of the great anti-utopians of the past For the twentieth century, he was even considered the person who dealt the final blow to revolutionary aspirations. However, there remains a suspicion that Freud was seeking something dangerous, and that psychoanalysis - despite its clear historical pessimism - refus...