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...main emphasis of his Holmes of the Breakfast-Table is on Holmes as a forerunner of the moderns-the cool-headed doctor who not only wrote a medical classic on puerperal fever, but occasionally, as in Elsie Venner, anticipated Freud; the science popularizer whose Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table came nearer to Darwin than to the Transcendentalists; the author of The Professor, the awkward but potent anti-Calvinist Babbitt...
...ways & means of this extraordinary group are best exemplified by Eddie Bernays, a swart, jittery nephew of Sigmund Freud (a fact of which he is inordinately proud). He began his career as a newshawk, then as pressagent for Enrico Caruso. Now he likes to consider himself a "priest to Big Business" and he ministers only at a high retainer. Procter & Gamble is said to pay him $25,000 a year...
...idealistic Scientist J. S. Haldane, nephew of the encyclopedic-minded Viscount Haldane who became Britain's Lord Chancellor, John B. S. Haldane was born 46 years ago in Scotland. Growing up in an atmosphere of intellectual curiosity and freedom, he did not find Einstein unintelligible or Freud shocking. He was educated at Eton and Oxford, served in France and Mesopotamia during the War, was twice wounded, became a captain. He said he enjoyed shooting Germans. Nowadays he is known as an authority on poison gas, is an Air Raid Precautions expert...
...human relations was to become a science, they should, like other scientists, find a hypothesis to unify their research, test it, eventually reduce it to mathematical formulae. Thereupon they formulated a tentative theory with 14 definitions, eight postulates and about a dozen theorems. This theory was based on Sigmund Freud's frustration-aggression hypothesis, i.e., whenever an individual's natural impulses are frustrated, he commits acts of aggression against the frustrater, against others or against himself; aggression always indicates frustration. The Institute's scientists proceeded to apply this theory to social as well as individual behavior. With...
...personality, hostility of Pilaga Indian children to everybody and everything, emotional qualifications of good teachers, infant pyromania, problems of old age. Cheerful social workers occupied most of the ballroom chairs, but the meeting was dominated by psychoanalysts, who gave evidence of the utility and freshness of old Sigmund Freud's ideas (see p. 41) whence they had all got theirs...