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...Twenties Jung's and Freud's theories of the subconscious had pretty well destroyed the rational structure of the world and opened the way for the literary experimenters to take an inordinate interest in dreams and innovations in the use of language. Much of the description of dreams does not make very good sense, as the word is customarily used. But this is in line with the attitude "The writer expresses, he does not communicate." This idea, which infuriated some critics, was expounded by "transition" in a manifesto called "The Revolution of the Word." The manifesto closed with the statement...
...fascinated jury listened before a finally exhausted Dr. Binger was allowed to step down. But Defense Attorney Claude B. Cross immediately wheeled up reinforcements: Dr. Henry Alexander Murray. Like both Dr. Binger and Alger Hiss, Dr. Murray was a graduate of Harvard. He had also studied under Dr. Jung. He testified that he had had lots of opportunity to observe psychopathic personalities at Harvard University, where he was director of the Harvard Psychological Clinic. He backed up his colleague, Binger. Chambers, he said, was a psychopathic personality...
...head is going round & round," said Murphy. But next day he doggedly arose to cross-examine, wearily pursuing the authoritative Dr. Murray through imagery, absinthe, Jung and Sigmund Freud...
...humor of a Thurber or a Steig: but he is not trying to be funny. This is his third book of drawings (the others: It's a Long Way to Heaven, What Am I Doing Here?), all owed to the remorseless probings of Drs. Freud and Jung. Like the others, it is a grim search through the weird subconscious levels of John Doe, a search that altogether misses heart & soul but finds a spirit crushed and shriveled by what Abner Dean considers the terrors of everyday 20th Century life...
Quite early in its history, the Clinic began the practice of inviting visiting dignitaries and distinguished men from the University to come for the 40-cent lunch and talk with the staff. Julian Huxley, H. L. Mencken, and the psychologist Carl Jung are among the diverse visitors the Clinic has had. The late Robert Benchley also came. He arrived in the middle of the joke experiment. Benchley showed great interest in all the apparatus used to measure a person's internal and external responses to the jokes, and in a few weeks the Clinic staff was reading an elaborate parody...