Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Abraham Arden Brill of Manhattan, a Freud disciple, was scheduled to read a paper on "Abraham Lincoln as a Humorist." Lincoln, from what Dr. Brill has been able to learn out of Lincoln biographies, was a schizoidmanic. That appellation is not so horrendous as it seems in type. A schizoid is a "split personality." He has subtle conflicts among the psychic components of his personality. A manic is a moody person, one subject to fits of exaltation and depression. When a manic or a schizoid or any type of mental aberration annoys his neighbors, they call him crazy and have...
...Lincoln's moodiness. Dr. Brill reasons, was a result of his personality conflicts. "Two contrasting natures struggled within him, the inheritance from an untutored, roving and unstable father, who treated him brutally; and from a cheerful, fine, affectionate mother from whom Lincoln claimed to have inherited his power of analysis, his logic, his mental activity, and his ambition...
Another psychoanalytic peep at Lincoln: "Lincoln was a very aggressive person, and hence one would expect him to be also sexually aggressive. According to Herndon, Mr. Lincoln had a strong passion for women. And yet, much to his credit, he lived a pure and virtuous life...
Another peep: "What is very peculiar about Lincoln's stories and jokes, his own and those he appropriated from others, is the fact that many, if not most, are of an aggressive or algolagnic nature, treating of pain, suffering and death, and that a great many of them were so frankly sexual as to be classed as obscene...
...analysis: "[Lincoln's] moods never reached to that degree of profundity to justify the diagnosis of insanity. At all times Lincoln remained in touch with reality. His ego never sought refuge in insanity...