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dynamics and form^a, the form can be a repressive power with respect to the dynamics of our life, to go beyond the limits in, let us say, vocational respect, national respect, family respect, to go beyond the given place on which we are ("place" not only geographical but, even more, intellectually and socially and psychologically). Repressions are always possible. The form makes life possible. But the form at the same time is able to repress life. Now take the best example, for which I gave you the pictures as an example: academic art, where the creative dynamics are repressed in the academies of art by traditions of form. The learning of the form is good, but

if this learning of the form REPRESSES the creative impact of the artist, we have that kind of art which we call academic and which is REPRESSED art, and therefore very much loved by all those who are in principle repressors in ALL realms of life. Now I think that was the question. Now we have to go ahead. === I gave you one example of the social problems of ethics, namely the family life, and especially that element in the family life which has to do with sexual relation. The other element, which also needs full development, is the element of authority^b. i [sic.] would like to go into this problem from different points of view. If you want to read somebody who is outspoken and almost bitter of authority, then read EVERY book of Erich Fromm^c,

especially his book on religion and psychoanalysis. He distinguishes two types of authority, what he calls rational authority and irrational authority. This is an interesting distinction; I myself have always distinguished, on the basis of the difference of Catholicism and Protestantism,