ABSTRACT
Karl Marx and Freud have been the two chief influences in twentieth century, and as Marx refers everything to external causes and Freud refers everything to internal causes, one might suppose that no one would try to believe in both simultaneously. Freud, who was nearly forty years younger than Marx, opened up the depths of the individual consciousness as a retreat from outside world, which by the first decades of twentieth century had lost for the civilized peoples of Western Europe much of the glow irradiating it a hundred years earlier in the springtime of industry and invention. Marx, on the other hand, was pure Old Testament, savage and self-engrossed throughout his life, except for a few months of love and poetry in his early youth, and a patriarchal feeling for his wife and children. With nothing to say, plenty of rhetoric to say it with, and a boundless craving for power, Marx was well qualified for a political career.
