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an explanatory factor. But there is morento discourage Gay's reader-, he is told,nand told again throughout the volume,nthat the author's great, unique mentor isnSigmund Freud. Now, whatever we maynthink of the Viennese guru, his transcendentnprestige has with the years eroded.nNot only was he posthumously psychoanalyzednand . . .