Word: jurgens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whatever happened to the Cult of James Cabell? That quiet Virginian who wrote nineteen books; "the author of Jurgen," as he was loathe to be remembered. James Branch Cabell, a William and Mary graduate, newspaper reporter, magazine writer, coal miner, genealogist, and historian. Any of the latter-day literati who have skipped through the wispy medieval odyssey of a pawnbroker called Jurgen, and chuckled over all the phallic imagery, can appreciate Cabell as representative of an era--the era of gin-flasks, flappers, and sex in the back seat of Mr. Ford's Monstrosity...
...inclined to believe that the discovery of cosmic chaos was not a triumph for man. It only sustained the defeat. But Cabell didn't let things go at anticipating Sartre and the Left Bank anti-ontologists. He did believe in wit and beauty, and symbolistic meaning. Images in Jurgen arise from both his imagination and his erudition...
...literature today is strewn with dead cats, of all sizes and philosophies--and they all stink. As Jurgen and Domnei and Figures of Earth collect their dust, one wonders at fashion and the "bitch-goddess" fame...
...Better? What does analysis do for patients? Says Hans Jurgen Eysenck, a bright, up-and-coming British psychologist: "I have yet to meet a Freudian who can prove that there is a higher [improvement rate] among neurotics who are psychoanalyzed . . . What evidence they do offer is anecdotal ... In mental cases of all types about three-quarters will recover in about the same period whether they have treatment...
...collaboration with British-born Anthropologist Gregory Bateson, Swiss-born Dr. Jurgen Ruesch has written Communication, the Social Matrix of Psychiatry (Norton; $4.50), in an attempt to tie insanity and psychiatry with communication engineering and other sciences (among them, cybernetics) into a single system. Samples from Ruesch's chapters...