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Unlike the best of his earlier drawings, these are vaguer in outline, foggier in theme, harder to unravel. Like them, they feature literal and psychological nakedness. His first two books were worth the time of anyone who was willing to look at himself in psychic undress and momentarily exchange his individuality for the plight of today's mythical Everyman. Dean doesn't have "entirely different thoughts now" (see cut); he merely has more incomprehensible ones. Psychiatrists may decide that Dean is now poking around at a deeper level of the subconscious; to plain folks and old-fashioned artists...
...spiteful hope of seeing the experiment fail, are "the realists," cynical ex-Commies who still retain ("from their Leninist days") the smug and fanciful notion that they are a revolutionary elite. Steeped in a Marx-cum-Freud conviction that no man can "resist history, environment, class structure, psychic conditioning," the realists take for granted that all oases which spring from mere individual initiative are sure to be mirages...
Most important, says Lawrence, is the realization by doctors and parents that acne can have serious psychic consequences, that it is often intimately connected with the emotional upsets and tensions of early adulthood and that, unless properly handled, "severe acne brands as much of a scar on the personality as on the skin...
Some anti-Harvard feelings among the police and towns people is understandable, if only for economic differences. However, I suspect that this feeling in a policeman is indicative of some psychic disturbance which, harmful enough in itself, could be extended to other prejudices and obsession. Needless to say, a policeman is daily called upon to pass judgment many more times than the robed figure behind the bench. A mentally-ill police officer can be a dangerous thing. Periodical psychiatric checkups should be required for all public officials, including policemen and congressmen...
...Murphy founded the Psychology Department and the Parapsychology laboratory at Duke University, and several years later went to CCNY. He returned to Harvard in the summer of 1942 and taught a course in psychic experimentation. Murphy was recently elected president of the English society for Psychical Research...