ABSTRACT
Moreover, Bellow does not encounter in Freud an arcane scientist or offbeat mind. Freudian perceptions are at the heart of twentieth-century life. Freud gives us a view of man which is new, denuding, disillusioned, which is radically subjective and iconoclastic, which is, in short, modern. Bellow’s resistance to Freud begins in opposition to the terms with which these views are given. Freud is a prime instance of modernism, against which Bellow has mounted a sustained critique.
