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NOTES OF THE DAY
SOCIAL CREDIT
MAY
24, 1935.
THE STUFF OF DREAMS
By C. E.
M. JOAD
The Very Idea!
POT-POURRI
Two British Socialist workers hava lately returned from Rushin (writes a London gossip) and
playing-cards,
Of recent years modern psycho- | nothing like so many of ours as of they liked everything except the logists have increasingly turned our fathers. their attention to the significance of dreams, with result that they have found them very significant indeed. Particularly the paycho-
For psychn-analysts our mental life is like an iceberg, in the sense that the part of it that appears to view ia only a small part of the
The trouble is that the en- thusiasm of Freudians, rather than of Freud, has insisted on treating what has turned out to be a valu- able hypothesis in certain cases of mental diaordor as a comprehensive picture of the human paychological interior. With crusading zeal they insist that Froud has found the
The New Statcamon, published in London, which treats somewhat extensively on economic matters, has been examining the theories put forward by Major Douglas deal- ing with social. credit. Seemingly, in England, the disciples of the Douglas School look with pitying contempt on those who fail to ap- preckie the social blessings which It is alleged will flow from social credit. The New Statesman analysts! aware that it is treading on delicato ground. It admits that any critic who sets out to anatomize Major Douglas labours under a heavy dis- advantage, for he "either is not an economist, and so is unused to handling the general concepts of cost and price, or he is, in which CBC Major Douglas has dealt with Major him in advance." The has taken the attitude that the entire staff of the London School of Economics, to say nothing of other seats of learning, are in the pay of the bankers, the powers of finance, and suborned to impress on the minds of the young the
A more fruitful form of dream sanctity of the present system,"t The New Statcaman is not deterred express themselves in conscious interpretation is in my view nd
Ness, But in the interests of ren-vanced by Dunne in his celebrated by the pre-judgment of all critics pectability, the threshold of con- book. "An Experiment with Time." of the Douglas system.
It goes
whole. What is more, it is not the part that really matters. We used to think that we could to some ex- tent control our thoughts and de- sires, and that we could, therefore, be called to account for what we According to the thought and did. modern theory of the unconscious this is not true.
The unconscious is conceived na 1 source of impulse and desires which are continuously striving to
key to unlock all the mysteries of the interpretation of dreams. Not of some dreams, mark you, but of all of them, and, when it obviously does not apply, they perform mira- cles of ingenuity in conjecturing how it might be made to, and pro- cred to supply the place of know- ledge by converting jectures into dogma.
will be.
their con
In other words, they fore- shadow the future.
blithely ahead to give its viewpoint sousness is guarded by an official. While Freud suggests our dreams on the basis of actualities. After the "Freudian Censor," who refuses represent what we want to be true stating the essence of the Norint to allow the entry of any impulse but isn't, Dunne points out that or desire whose recognition would Credit argument and placing it in destroy our good opinion of our-they represent what isn't true but
somewhat smaller compass than selves, and whose indulgence would
scandalise the neighbours. it occuples in the Douglas text- books, The New Statesman faila to see how the scheme of social dividends on purchases would help matters. Its real reaction to its studies of the proposals is one of amazement, and in this connection
it says!
FRACTION FOR WAGES
We, however, do not realise this, since, when we wake up, the official gets to work again and proceeds to censor our dreams as we remember
them.
under. Thus it has
Dunne discovered that from time to the his dreams came true. The discovery has been made by others, but some rather sensational verifications of Dunne's
dreams
The theory 18 difficult and technical, and it is by no means necessary to accept it in order to concede that dream experiences of the future do in fact occur.
It
Nevertheless, I find it difficult to
time
At their frat hotel they asked for a pack of cards. They found that the Soviet Government had expunged the pictures of King, Queen, and so on as royalist symbols, and had substituted other designs more in keeping with Soviet idenis.
"I took all the pleasure away,” onc of the Socialists told his
friends on returning to England. Who wants to go nap on three
Inspector?" Town Councillors and a sanitary
A WRIGGLER Father (admiring his recently born heir)"That fellow will be a great statesman one of these days."
Mother-"Oh, Charles dear, do
you really think he will?
"Sure of it. Look how easily ho wriggles out of everything."
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BALLAD
it spring (1 Warsaw?
asked) in
Is it spring in far Borlin 7 And is there promise in Moscow
Of summer y-cumen in? There's a garden of girls at
Geneva
Bright in their gala clothes; But what of the lilies of Stresa
What of Locarno's rose?
I asked, and the experts
answered:
Spring and summer pass by; The rose of Locarno is withered;
Stresa's lillen must die.
And Hubris, daughter of Ares,
Tossed lightly her hateful
curls: There'll be death, she said, and
destruction In Geneva's garden of girls.
*
NO GOLFER
•
IN THE NAVY
he
Railors are told off to hold umbrel- the dull respectability of their lives. Here, however, for what it la las over it."
In this respect it is itself like a worth, is an alternative explanation
SAYINGS OF THE WEEK You never know your luck in
If the censor functions properly very title of our unconscious life "gets through" into consciousness, or rather it "gets through" altered that "its own mother would led him to devote special attention not know it. Thus an unconscious to the subject, and, in particular. desire to einpe with one's next-tu devise a technique for recording door neighbour's wife might ap- his dreams before they had faded pear in consciousness as a sudden
from memory. In conclusion was FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1935.
"First, what is this ebronic de-aversion from pickled cabbage.
that they consisted of elements fciency of
purchasing power? Major Douglas is not merely talk- In-sleep the censor goes off duty, derived in various degrees from his BETTER OUTLOOK Ing about cyclical fluctuations and and the unconscious rises to the past and present experience.
Our dreams represent, the monetary disturbances under-surface.
The future must, then, Dunne IN EUROPE
lying them; his deficiency goes on then, all the things that we uncon- No-one can have given a close and on and up and up continuously sciously want, but do not in ordin-suggests, in some sense exist, and which this and cumulatively. At each stage ary life permit ourselves to know he proceeds to elaborate a theory
of time in terms of we want. They represent, existence of the future should be reading to the summaries of of production, he anys, only a frac- that fact. our repressed wishes.
possible. Herr Hitler's speech in the tion of the costa incurred are dis- in Reichstag without feeling that tributed in wages and salaries; the Hence, as they actually occur our rest goes back to the producers of dreams are exceedingly disreput- it contained the most detailed
raw material semi-manufac-able. statement of German foreign turers, or in rent and interest.
Two Edinburgh golfers played a policy made since the Nazis cames This is true enough, but what to
it matter? Cost to the payer is
match over the Braids recently, the into power. Indeed, it can be income to the recipient, whether it
Moreover, the notion that the and about halfway through
in arrears WAB said that the response to the be paid as wages or as rent; when
future already exists has disturbing round, the man Implications.
suggests, for showing his gloom pretty plainly. appeals for a definity contribu- all the factors of production have
example, that free-will is a delu- As they approached a new tee, tion towards the adjustment of been paid for, whether labour power, land or credit, their owners
Freud's conception is very popu-sion, since, if the future already is, a nearby blackbird burst into song, the European situation
have at the appropriate stages
to make it. and the player in the lead remark- more specific than was generally drawn their incomes up to the total lar. Most of us like to think that our apparent power anticipated. Although Germany represented by the price. Provid-we are gay dogs at heart, who could within limits, what we please, must ed. "Well, he's happy enough any-
and would paint the town red if we be illusory. The states known as way."
are clairvoyant also apparently from "Aye," growled his companion, cycle, an only let ourselves go, but still claims the right to ignore, there is not, as during the de-
pression phase of the military clauses of the Ver-accumulation of idle deposits, no normally prevented by the iron time to time reveal what turns out, "but he's no' playing golf."
strength of our wills. This view, to be the future, and I do not sailles Treaty, arguing that deficiency arises during the pro- for which, so far as I can see, there believe that we can dismiss all the
есян. One need only consider the these clauses had already been fact that, according to Major Doug-is little evidence, is countenanced evidence from clairvoyance as due and confirmed by the Freudian to trickery on the one hand and to
An old lady was being shown made null and void by the failure Ins, no defielency would arise if u
over a submarine for the first time. of the other signatorics to dis-single producer carried through theory of dreams in two very grati-dupery on the other.
After inspecting the interior of the vessel sho came out on deck arm, she lays down a set of pro- each process from start to finish,fying particulars.
while the mere fact of the process On 'the one hand it assures us of posals for the future which being divided into stages must re- the primitive violence of our un-
"And doesn't that get awfully wet ought without undue difficulty, sult-even if the final product is conscious passions, and on the other accept the view of the present again and noticed the long gun.
sold at a lower price-in a deit compliments us on the iron self-existence of the future. Questions when you submerge?" she asked to be made the basis of a com-
the nature of relating to ficiency of 50 per cent, or more. control with which we normally reviously arise, but beyond knowing her guide, a Cockney sailor. prehensive understanding be- It is melancholy that so fantastic keep them
"Lor love yer, no, mum," SEMESTEREND |tween the nations of Europe. an argument should seriously re- comforted many worthy citizens, that time is very queer we know replied. "When we submerge twe
The excellent reception accorded | quire refuting.”
and brought them consolation for pry little about it. to Hitler's speech, especially in
NOT PERFECT Britain, is a good augury for the
a dream, since it offers us an outlet which is slightly less disturbing in The New Statesman does not into the fantastic world of Freud's its implications than the view that future; it now remains for some
argue that the present pricing sys-imagination as an escape from the the future exists. William James definite step to be made to fol- tem is perfect. On the contrary real world of fact. low up the German gesture and it admits the opposite, but it can attempt a real consolidation of not see how a scheme of social the peace structure. One of the dividends on purchase would help the matter. That scheme it des direct prospects is the likelihood cribes as a roundabout and admin- of an Air Pact being devised istratively complicated form of in- along the lines suggested in the flation, certain to cause the same n direct The recent Anglo-French communi- dislocating results as
watering of the currency." que. Germany's apparent will-New Statesman admires the sin- ingness to join in such a plan, cerity of Major Douglas; it pities coupled with the possibility of his judgment. His is a character, it says, full of generous indigna- measures being taken to safe- tion and of human sympathy and It has done Major Doug- guard civilian populations from courage.
las the honour of giving close study indiscriminate attack, is most
to his reasonings and it has found reassuring. The parity envis- aged is one markedly above the them wanting. "It is hardly less than tragle," it says, "that in his present British aerial strength, battle against the twentieth cen a circumstance which makes it tury Leviathan this enthusiastic necessary for Britain to under- St. George should carry a lance of take a big programme of expan- such shoddy timber, a sword of sion. From one standpoint, it such base metal, and a banner with is to be regretted-that-the parityusha.very strange device." should be set so high, since à tremendous sum will need to be spent to bring the R.A.F. up to requirements. However, parity at a high figure is to be pre- ferred to no parity at all, with the nations of Europe engaged in a race for aerial superiority. For Britain, as Mr. Baldwin has been at pains to point out, this expansion of the Air Force is not merely a question of national defence; it is a question also of the ability of Britain, to dis-wheel. If such a greage nipple is charge her obligations. Thus in" building up a bigger and better equipped air arm, Britain is not
If the motorist cannot undertake only reinforcing national secu-
this work himself it is not an ex- rity, but collective security as well. As Mr. Baldwin has de-pensive job to hand over to the finitely declared, Britain's arma- ments will never be used except in restraint of an aggressor. Let the European nations unite in respect of this principle," and future peace is definitely as sured.
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Is responsible for the suggestion this world. Take the case of my This is no to say that our dreams that what we call the "present" is wife. She took her dog to the doz not an instantaneous pinpoint of show-ho's a sort of mastiff, but may not very frequently embody time, but has a definite duration. smaller. Well, would you believe our unacknowledged wishes, and it It is a saddle-back upon which we it, the dog got nothing, but my is no doubt the case that many of it perched between the past and our unacknowledged wishes are We mny hope sexual-although
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"Go on, give him a peanut. Don't be afraid--daddy isn't afraid."
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the future, and its normal duration is certainly not less than several seconds.
This conception is called the Now the "apecious present." length of the "specious present" varles. When our conscious atten- tion is fully engaged, it contracts. Thus the "apecious present" of a man who Is pursued by an angry in- bull fines itself down to stantaneous moment of pulsating experience.
an
But when our conscious atten- tion relaxes, the period of the "apecious present" expands-in. day-dreams and revelrles, for example, the period of which wo are vaguely conscious as being "present" may be considerably expanded.
of
Now consider the case dreama. The conscious attention
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is completely disengaged, and 15.