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...transpired in his mind. This is the hardest and riskiest area for a biographer to penetrate, but Bair manages to avoid pop-psych theorizing and to let what facts there are speak for themselves. After a long period of psychoanalysis and a chance attendance at a lecture by Carl Jung, Beckett decided that he had not fully been born. This, he felt, explained his fondness for curling up in dark rooms, his urge to hide from an insistently garish reality. "I'm looking for my mother to kill her," says the narrator of The Unnamable. "I should have thought...
While he does branch out in new directions--different research methods and a broader focus--Levinson is also clearly following in the wake of the psychoanalytic school of thought. Drawing on the work and concepts of Freud, Jung, Erikson and William James, among others, he attempts to generalize their ideas to include other times of life besides childhood and other crises and reorientations besides the Oedipal dilemma. Fortunately, Levinson also is more favorable to sociological sorts of questions and researches than are his more theoretical psychoanalytic counterparts, and therefore he tends to live less in a world of mental models...
...sort of like the coffeehouses in...A-u-s-t-r-i-a," his voice drifted quixotically, "when Freud and Jung used to sit around and... bullshit. Drink coffee. That's where baseball's heading...
...East Asian Legal Studies Program has previously invited South Korean political prisoner Kim Dae Jung and supporters of the Philippine and South Korean governments to speak at Harvard...
DIED. William Herbert Sheldon, 78, psychologist who developed a theory of "somatotypes" correlating varieties of human physique with behavior; of a heart ailment; in Cambridge, Mass. After studying with Carl Gustav Jung in Switzerland, Sheldon returned to the U.S., where he interviewed several thousand subjects for the theory he popularized. People with a frail physique and introverted behavior he called ectomorphs; those muscular in build with a predisposition for physical activity were mesomorphs; and those fleshy in shape and outgoing in personality were endomorphs. Sheldon also did research in the relation between these body types and organic disease...