ABSTRACT
Twentieth-century culture has fed avariciously on the constructs, models, language, and clinical observations of psychoanalysis. But the corpus, civili zation, and its skeleton, the law, have not grown noticeably robust on it. This difference, though paradoxical, is inevitable. Culture is the sum, at any point in time, of the emergent creative values, the fluctuant aesthetic tone, the amorphous manner, the nuances of living style. One man may write a poem, a play, a book, compose music, paint a picture, survive a personal sequence of struggle, live a private life. Any man, through his work, whether physical, intellectual, political, or artistic, may seek solutions to his immediate, idiosyncratic dilemma. W hen he is creative, his solution is novel. Those who spontaneously associate themselves with him because his emergent solution seems to resolve their own predicaments may absorb a powerful cultural change relatively quickly.
