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From: mms1646@acf4.UUCP (Michael M. Sykora)
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Date: Fri, 24-May-85 02:30:00 EDT
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>	Walker Percy is a Roman Catholic who briefly studied psychiatry in
>Medical school, and all of his novels explore the tension between the Freudian
>scientific view of the human condition, and the spiritual,more traditional
>Catholic view.

Who says Freud's is the scientific view?  Psychoanalysts?

Incidentally, Zamyatin's classic, "We," also deals with this topic, although it
has some of the same problems as Vonnegut's books on tyhe subject, namely that
science rather than people who claim to be acting in the name of science is the
chief antagonist.

							Mike Sykora