Freud and the Radicals
The Sexual Revolution Comes to Greenwich Village
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8895593 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Leslie Fishbein (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1981 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 173-190 |
| Publication date | 1981-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Review of American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-7720 • E-ISSN: 1710-114X |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/cras-012-02-03 |
| PMID | 11631790 |
| OpenAlex | W2046449312 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 10 |
By the time that Freudianism arrived in the United States in the feverish years before World War I, the bohemians and radicals who lived in Greenwhich Village were ripe for its message—overripe, perhaps. The Villagers represented in extremis the social revolt that characterized the rest of the country as a result of urbanization and the dissolution of communal ties. The freedom from moral scrutiny that cities provided weakened methods of social control so drastically that a "revolution in manners and morals" occurred during the Progressive Era well before the first rumbles of the Roaring Twenties.1
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| Highly cited | No |
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