Word: subconsciouses
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It appears that you . . . crawled up into the haymow in the loft and went to sleep. And, in your journalistic slumber, your uninformed, vague subconscious mind caused you to use the adjective "sleepier" about the most wide-awake town in Kentucky.
Nobody loves a murderer - but almost everybody loves a good murder story. To find out why people are so interested in murder, Psychoanalyst Theodor Reik, a fan himself, probed the subconscious of detectives, criminologists, judges, juries. His report, published this week (The Unknown Murderer; Prentice-Hall; $3), indicates that the...
To the average criminologist, says Reik contemptuously, the mind is "a minutely mapped-out police district." Reik thinks that the symptoms which a detective usually takes for signs of guilt - e.g., agitation, blushing, stuttering, lying - may be nothing more than the natural reactions of an innocent man with an ugly...
Test to Come. Brother officers, in moments of highly confidential shoptalk, have been known to accuse Buckner of possessing too much surface brilliance- a damning indictment in the Army. Much of that criticism may well have stemmed from subconscious envy of Buckner's first-rate vocabulary, which shines with...
The goings on in Thurber's deceptively casual cartoons range, from the neurasthenic to the pathological. But, like a psychic distorting mirror, they reflect reality-well-locked in the subconscious though it may be. Little boys bite little girls; men hear seals barking in the middle of the night...