Word: mental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus has the nation reckoned up the product of its intelligence. The best mental work having now been tabulated, the American genius may again devote itself to balance sheets less nebulous...
...your periodical is far above the mental standard of that well known person, "the average American." Your witticisms, your skillful use of the English language, the brilliant literary style of your periodical?which as a news publication will probably attain in years to come as great a renown as Addison's "Spectator"?seem to be sadly misunderstood by a large proportion of your readers. Also, and what is more to be deplored, this attitude on the part of an uncultured list of subscribers seems to have reacted on you to the point of lowering the literary standard...
...psychology which we are instituting at Harvard next year deals with the motivating forces within the personality and the reasons for mental reactions. It answers the question, why? Whereas the present academic psychology deals only with the question, what? We shall go into the sub-conscious, investigating dreams, inhibitions, repressions, instinctive reactions and also such abnormal mental phenomena as feeble-mindedness and states of extreme excitement and depression...
...Take for instance a lapse of memory. By hypnosis we can bring out of the subconscious mind everything which happened while the memory was not consciously functioning. It is then the function of dynamic psychology to find out the forces, usually anxiety or other mental conflict, which have caused the lapse and to study the processes which the mind passed through while the conscious memory was in abeyance...
...impossibility that such a culture could grow up in situ, as it were, is always brought forward by those who think they see superficial similarities between the Mayas and certain Mongolian peoples. The calendar alone, which no one has tried to prove originated outside of America, shows the mental equipment of the Mayas, the presence of genius in their midst...