Rethinking Sexuality Book

Here's the alternate subtitle for D. Keith Mano's Fergus Dialogues :: "Sex and Cannibalism; or, How to Out=Freud Freud." In other words, this is how one engages Freud's ideas. You will be pleasantly surprised to learn that it is not sex which functions as a cover for traumas xyz, but rather much more disturbing, that sex itself is a sublimate of eating. Oedipus is already a late=period screen. It is a miserable thing to be a human being, knowing that we are not what we were and cannot know what we are not yet. Return to nature? No thanks!

Which really begins to bring into question the distinction between liberal and conservative in today's mis-guiding political demarcations, when liberals would return to the 'natural' and the conservative insist upon 'culture and civilization.' It is not a question of whence stems any give issue xyz, whether from nature or nurture, but rather what do we do in the way of responding to and solving issue xyz? More nature or more culture? Is civilization the cause of our problems? Maybe. Is a return to the 'natural' the solution? No. The wound is healed by the spear which smote it.

At any rate, one understands very well why The Fergus Dialogues is Mano's son's favorite Mano novel. You will read Take Five because you a novel reader ; and it is Mano's greatest novel in the opinion of this novel reader. But then too do not miss what Mano gets himself up to in Fergus ; all is stripped away straight to the bone ; dialogue of the Platonic type, being perhaps the greatest Platonic dialogue of the twentieth century? Why not. And this Fergus character is as thoroughly Manoan as anything this or that side of Simon Lynxx. That good, yes.

Quail that Mano is BURIED.