paul robinson writes that "love's body" "makes quite clear that psychoanalysis was only a stage in brown's development toward a rather curious (and radical) brand of religious mysticism. the very concrete body of freudian psychology has been absorbed into the mystical body of traditional christian theology. to be sure, freud remains an important authority, and there is a racy (and confusing) display of sexual rhetoric. but the erotic language is largely metaphorical; as brown himself says, 'everything is symbolic...including the sexual act.' most significant, brown has been candid enough to make explicit the pronounced antipolitical assumptions which were only implicit in "life against death". he now argues that politics can never be the vehicle of liberation, not merely because political action is invariably corrupt, but also because politics don't really exist. political revolutions are 'reorganizations of the theater, of the stage for human action. the matter remains the same.'"