Freud … showed us that poetry is indigenous to the very con… - Lionel Trilling

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Freud … showed us that poetry is indigenous to the very constitution of the mind; he saw the mind as being, in the greater part of its tendency, exactly a poetry-making faculty.

Lionel Trilling

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Lionel Trilling (July 4, 1905 – November 5, 1975) was an American literary critic, author and educator.

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Alternative Names: Born Lionel Mordecai Trilling

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Richard M. Weaver Aldous Huxley José Ortega y Gasset Sigmund Freud Friedrich Nietzsche

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