Lionel Trilling1905–1975- The Liberal Imagination (1950), Freud and Literature
- Notebook entry (1948), published in Partisan Review: 50th Anniversary Edition, ed. William Philips (1985)
We are all ill; but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health.
The Liberal Imagination (1950), Art and NeurosisIt is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.
“The Novel Alive or Dead,” A Gathering of Fugitives: New Essays (1956)
