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That settles Rousseau's hash. Goldfein is no kinder to Freud. The great alienist, he imagines, met his rival Jung one day while strolling in Vienna. Freud felt faint, swooned, and sat down in the dust. Jung, much concerned, offered analysis: "We clear the air, eh, Sigmund? Ah yes, your passing out was a good thing. Hysterical. Yes. Hysteria neurosis. But a good thing." Freud blamed the fall on slippery leaves. " 'You passed out!' Carl insisted. 'Admit it. I know a shlip when I see one ... believe me, it was a healthy thing.' " Freud, much...
...blending of the classical and clinical that often marked Auden's verse. But the elder Auden used to confide in his son that doctors never know why their patients get well. At Ox ford, from which he graduated in the late '20s, already a poet, Auden studied Freud and preached that poets must be "clinically minded." He liked to explain his own nail biting and chain smoking as "insufficient weaning." Later, he traveled in Germany during the rise of Nazism. "For the first time," he later recalled, "I felt the earth move." He went home to find Britain...
Died. Conrad Aiken, 84, Pulitzer-prizewinning poet; of a heart attack; in Savannah, Ga. A close friend and Harvard classmate of T.S. Eliot's, Aiken began publishing poems in 1914. Influenced by both Sigmund Freud and Harvard Philosopher George Santayana, Aiken searched in his poetry and prose for musical and psychological truth -an effort resulting in rich mental atmospheres but lacking in drama and force. Best known for his Selected Poems, for Ushant, a third-person autobiography, and for a number of short stories, notably Silent Snow, Secret Snow, Aiken published more than 50 books of poetry, fiction...
More specifically, transactional analysts believe that what makes a person unhappy is an unbalanced relationship between the three parts that constitute every human personality: Parent, Adult and Child. Harris rejects any suggestion that these are the equivalent of Freud's superego, ego and id. "The Parent, Adult and Child are real things that can be validated," he insists. "We're talking about real people, real times and real events, as recorded in the brain." Be that as it may, the theory is that unless the mature, rational Adult dominates the personality, or, in the language...
...critic of T.A. in the past, Boston Psychiatrist Robert Coles takes a more charitable view. "There is some wisdom in it - of a limited kind," he says. "I don't think it has the depth or breadth of vision of either Christianity or Judaism, let alone of a Freud or a Jung. But neither Freud nor Jung offers the ordinary individual any creeds to live by. T.A. is terribly reassuring. I think worse has been done by people who pretended to more...