(Article changed on August 15, 2013 at 07:49)
Duluth, Minnesota (OpEdNews) August 13, 2013: From time to time, it is a good idea to step back a bit from our engaging debates involving red-states versus blue-states and the 1% versus the 99% in American culture today, and consider instead where we in American culture today stand and where we may be headed.
For example, from colonial times down to our present times, where has American culture come from, and where does our contemporary American culture appear to be heading? And if we do not like where it appears to be heading, where would we like to see it headed instead?
To establish a conceptual framework to discuss American culture, I will draw on the work of Sigmund Freud, David Riesman, Erich Fromm, Walter Ong, and others.
FREUD'S AND RIESMAN'S THREEFOLD VIEWS
As is well known, Sigmund Freud discusses three stages of psycho-sexual development:
(1) the oral stage;
(2) the anal stage;
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