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“But a terrific reservoir of guilt,And ignorance filled upfrom age to age,That could no longer holdIts loathsome chargeBut burst and spread in delugeThrough the land.”Wordsworth, W. The Prelude(on the French Revolution)
Serious scrutiny of the reciprocal relations of youth and the older generation based on psychoanalytic concepts may lead us toward a deeper insight into disruptive social-technological forces and perhaps to a softening of the social upheavals which have marked this century. The present campus quiet, for example, may be a passing one and may give way to even greater disturbances than we have so far seen. But now that they have at least temporarily subsided, an objective consideration of their larger individual and social significances becomes possible. We can pass beyond the immediate and go on to deeper insights.