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Article: The Trilling family "romance": report of a psychoanalytic autopsy.
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- Modern Age
- Article date:
- June 22, 2006
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IN 1999, I edited a book addressing the critical legacy of Lionel Trilling. The volume was entitled Lionel Trilling and the Critics: Opposing Selves, with the sub-title representing a nod both to Trilling's own essay collection, The Opposing Self(1955), and to his endless modulations and modifications of being. Lionel Trilling and the Critics charted and evaluated the critical reputation of Trilling, taking the story of his career, influence, and heritage from the 1930s through the late 1990s.
This essay concerns what I deem to be a new, and in some ways quite alarming, turn in his reputation, which may indeed signal the emerging twenty-first century ...