Word: ego
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...frauds, Mr. Price is willing to accept one phenomenon out of 1,000 as genuine. He believes that a psychic investigator who maintains a blind and stubborn skepticism under all circumstances gets nowhere. He states that he has never encountered scientific proof of the survival of the "soul, ego or personality" after death, but that occasionally an extraordinary medium seems to get in touch with a sort of dissociated psychic remnant of the deceased. For example...
...pooh-pooh their loss. From 1929 to 1933 as Lieutenant Governor, Herbert Lehman was Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt's "good right arm," performing the duties of Governor for long periods while Mr. Roosevelt was out of the State. Since 1933 he has been President Roosevelt's alter ego in New York, ramming through the State Legislature a mass of crime legislation, over 100 labor bills, a State NRA, higher taxes. Quiet and capable, Governor Lehman is tremendously popular with his 2,000,000 fellow-Jews in the State-a fact which partly explained President Roosevelt's desire...
...suicide, seven were commkted to institutions, four did not improve, one is beginning his seventh year of psychoanalysis, one "made a brilliant recovery." In defense of his specialty, Dr. Brill argued that psychoanalysis is struggling to cope with social problems which Dr. Freud's revelations of the id, ego, superego and libido have stirred up. Among such social problems is the utility of psychoanalysis itself. Testimony to the new science's utility is Chicago's Institute of Psychoanalysis, founded by Dr. Franz Alexander, 45, an understudy of Dr. Freud...
Causes: Detestation of propeller noise, fear of falling, fear of crashing, fear of seeing mangled bodies, fear of losing jobs, deflation of ego, loss of self-respect, fear of social degradation, anxiety for welfare of family. Dr. Armstrong thinks flying injures the actual tissues of the brain. He is trying to demonstrate this hypothesis by rattling rats in baskets until they go crazy, then examining their brains under the microscope...
Prevention: Avoidance of "profound emotional stress produced principally by accident hazards and social and economic insecurity." Emotional stress "can be off set by suitable compensation, either ego-stimulating or monetary. Since modern commercial aviation lacks any great amount of ego-stimulation, it remains to establish some standard to determine at approximately what point [monetary] compensation overcomes the effect of the accident hazard...