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authority has ever staged. But the suicide is only an act. Miss Brophy realizes that the purpose of civilization, and of psychoanalysis as a function of civilization, is to reconcile men to those renunciations of instinct that, as Freud wrote, necessarily must remain and for which the individual must be compensated by pleasures that are at once higher and more realizable than the pleasure of instinctual gratification. In compensation, throughout the third and fourth parts of Black Ship to Hell Miss Brophy offers those guilt-edged securities, Art and Science. These are Miss Brophy's esthetic substitutes for religion and war. Here we see most aptly expressed that contemporary religionizing of art that is the main counter to the moralizing of authority. It is true that new religions are constantly being born. But modern civilization is unique in having given birth to such elaborately argued antireligions. I suspect that the children of Israel did not spend much time elaborating a doctrine
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authority has ever staged. But the suicide is only an act. Miss Brophy realizes that the purpose of civilization, and of psychoanalysis as a function of civilization, is to reconcile men to those renunciations of instinct that, as Freud wrote, necessarily must remain and for which the individual must be compensated by pleasures that are at once higher and more realizable than the pleasure of instinctual gratification. In compensation, throughout the third and fourth parts of Black Ship to Hell Miss Brophy offers those guilt-edged securities, Art and Science. These are Miss Brophy's esthetic substitutes for religion and war. Here we see most aptly expressed that contemporary religionizing of art that is the main counter to the moralizing of authority. It is true that new religions are constantly being born. But modern civilization is unique in having given birth to such elaborately argued antireligions. I suspect that the children of Israel did not spend much time elaborating a doctrine
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