Daniel Fuchs is Professor Emeritus of English at the City University of New York’s College of Staten Island. He is the author of Saul Bellow: Vision and Revision and The Comic Spirit of Wallace Stevens, both also published by Duke University Press.

“The Limits of Ferocity is a fascinating and essential book for the student of modernity. Daniel Fuchs identifies one of the key strands in modernist thought and cultural behavior in this authoritative, intellectually sophisticated treatment of modernist outrage at the repressions and civilized limits implied in Freud’s theory of the superego, and of the anti-bourgeois attempts of many modernists to go beyond all such boundaries and limits through utopian sexual transcendence. This is interdisciplinary cultural/historical critique at its best.”-Gloria L. Cronin, author of A Room of His Own: In Search of the Feminine in the Novels of Saul Bellow “An epic achievement, The Limits of Ferocity is a significant contribution to the study of modern fiction and to psychoanalytic criticism. Daniel Fuchs yokes familiar writers and thinkers together in a new way, making us rethink their relationship.”-Andrew Gordon, author of An American Dreamer: A Psychoanalytic Study of the Fiction of Norman Mailer “At a time in which the American political environment could hardly be more extreme or polarized, Daniel Fuchs’s trenchant critique of modernist literary rebellion issues a resounding call for restored moderation, civility, and humanism in our cultural values and perspectives…. Sociological critique bows to Fuchs’s sensibility as a literary critic and his empathetic appreciation of the dynamic tensions of inner life as expressed by the literary imagination. That sensibility shines through in this supremely intelligent and humane book.” - Barbara Schapiro (D.H. Lawrence Review)

• Acknowledgments ixIntroduction 11. Freud and the Postwar Temper 112. Freud and Others on Aggression 243. Wilhelm Reich 404. Norman O. Brown 535. Deleuze and Guattari 67Interchapter. Deleuze and Guattari on Lawrence and Miller 886. The Marquis de Sade 1027. D. H. Lawrence 1458. Georges Bataille 194Interchapter. Bataille on Sade 2249. Henry Miller 232Interchapter. Miller on Lawrence 27110. Norman Mailer 293Interchapter. Mailer on Mailer 332Conclusion. The Naked and the Clothed 346Notes 363Index 391

Daniel Fuchs is Professor Emeritus of English at the City University of New York’s College of Staten Island. He is the author of Saul Bellow: Vision and Revision and The Comic Spirit of Wallace Stevens, both also published by Duke University Press.

“The Limits of Ferocity is a fascinating and essential book for the student of modernity. Daniel Fuchs identifies one of the key strands in modernist thought and cultural behavior in this authoritative, intellectually sophisticated treatment of modernist outrage at the repressions and civilized limits implied in Freud’s theory of the superego, and of the anti-bourgeois attempts of many modernists to go beyond all such boundaries and limits through utopian sexual transcendence. This is interdisciplinary cultural/historical critique at its best.”-Gloria L. Cronin, author of A Room of His Own: In Search of the Feminine in the Novels of Saul Bellow “An epic achievement, The Limits of Ferocity is a significant contribution to the study of modern fiction and to psychoanalytic criticism. Daniel Fuchs yokes familiar writers and thinkers together in a new way, making us rethink their relationship.”-Andrew Gordon, author of An American Dreamer: A Psychoanalytic Study of the Fiction of Norman Mailer “At a time in which the American political environment could hardly be more extreme or polarized, Daniel Fuchs’s trenchant critique of modernist literary rebellion issues a resounding call for restored moderation, civility, and humanism in our cultural values and perspectives…. Sociological critique bows to Fuchs’s sensibility as a literary critic and his empathetic appreciation of the dynamic tensions of inner life as expressed by the literary imagination. That sensibility shines through in this supremely intelligent and humane book.” - Barbara Schapiro (D.H. Lawrence Review)

• Acknowledgments ixIntroduction 11. Freud and the Postwar Temper 112. Freud and Others on Aggression 243. Wilhelm Reich 404. Norman O. Brown 535. Deleuze and Guattari 67Interchapter. Deleuze and Guattari on Lawrence and Miller 886. The Marquis de Sade 1027. D. H. Lawrence 1458. Georges Bataille 194Interchapter. Bataille on Sade 2249. Henry Miller 232Interchapter. Miller on Lawrence 27110. Norman Mailer 293Interchapter. Mailer on Mailer 332Conclusion. The Naked and the Clothed 346Notes 363Index 391

Daniel Fuchs is Professor Emeritus of English at the City University of New York’s College of Staten Island. He is the author of Saul Bellow: Vision and Revision and The Comic Spirit of Wallace Stevens, both also published by Duke University Press.

“The Limits of Ferocity is a fascinating and essential book for the student of modernity. Daniel Fuchs identifies one of the key strands in modernist thought and cultural behavior in this authoritative, intellectually sophisticated treatment of modernist outrage at the repressions and civilized limits implied in Freud’s theory of the superego, and of the anti-bourgeois attempts of many modernists to go beyond all such boundaries and limits through utopian sexual transcendence. This is interdisciplinary cultural/historical critique at its best.”-Gloria L. Cronin, author of A Room of His Own: In Search of the Feminine in the Novels of Saul Bellow “An epic achievement, The Limits of Ferocity is a significant contribution to the study of modern fiction and to psychoanalytic criticism. Daniel Fuchs yokes familiar writers and thinkers together in a new way, making us rethink their relationship.”-Andrew Gordon, author of An American Dreamer: A Psychoanalytic Study of the Fiction of Norman Mailer “At a time in which the American political environment could hardly be more extreme or polarized, Daniel Fuchs’s trenchant critique of modernist literary rebellion issues a resounding call for restored moderation, civility, and humanism in our cultural values and perspectives…. Sociological critique bows to Fuchs’s sensibility as a literary critic and his empathetic appreciation of the dynamic tensions of inner life as expressed by the literary imagination. That sensibility shines through in this supremely intelligent and humane book.” - Barbara Schapiro (D.H. Lawrence Review)

• Acknowledgments ixIntroduction 11. Freud and the Postwar Temper 112. Freud and Others on Aggression 243. Wilhelm Reich 404. Norman O. Brown 535. Deleuze and Guattari 67Interchapter. Deleuze and Guattari on Lawrence and Miller 886. The Marquis de Sade 1027. D. H. Lawrence 1458. Georges Bataille 194Interchapter. Bataille on Sade 2249. Henry Miller 232Interchapter. Miller on Lawrence 27110. Norman Mailer 293Interchapter. Mailer on Mailer 332Conclusion. The Naked and the Clothed 346Notes 363Index 391