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EVERYMAN'S PSYCHOLOGY BANKER RETURNS

PSYCHOLOGY ›“FROM ABOVE

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AND FROM BELOW

(By FATHER G, BYRNE, S.J.)

A DANGEROUS TOOL

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The writer in an article on

TO HOSPITAL

$25,000 BAIL FORFEITED

NEW YORK, July 18 MR Joseph Harriman, the New York banker, provided a fresh sensation to-day when he voluntari. ly returned to the 'nursing homo from which he disappeared yester day.

Just previously an "application: had been made in court for the issue of a warrant for his arrest, while his bail of £25,000 was or

dared to be forfeited.

sanatorium in a taxi-cab.

Mr. Harriman returned to the

Spectacular Career, The banker rose spectacularly to of the United States. prominence in the financial world

happiness in other words, that their judgments are attempts to In view of certain questions put prop up their illusions with argue to me, some remarks on the dements." "In his Guide to Modern velopment of the New Psycho-Thought Mr. Joad aptly remarks: logy may not be out of place.It is difficult to resist the Last week I referred to an article temptation of asking whether this in a current review called Psycho-conviction (of Freud's) applies to Questioned by the police, the logy, which appears to have a cer- the judgment by which it is driver of the Taxi, said that Har- tain circulation in Hong Kong as affirmed.**

riman hailed him in the street. it is to be found on bookstalls. The fact is that Paycho-him that he had just climbed out near the Hudson River and told analysis, whilst it has quickened of the river. Dreams introduced Freud as con-research work of an interesting sidered by the world the wisest nature, is itself a dangerous too! of the Age "who, by his dream in the hands of any save the most theory and dream symbolism skilled. As a system of thought opens up to 8

the royal road it is frankly material. One of the to self-understanding

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most, searching criticisms of it dasures us that there are few has been recently made by Dr. great thinkers who do not regard Rudolf Allers, Reader in Psychis, dream analysis as such. Writ- try in the University of Vienna ing of this kind is regrettable, all He eums up in brief recapitula- the more regrettable as the avertion its principal factors. Psycho- age reader who has neither thei time, nor the training to consult tion that in human nature notional, with J. W. Harriman still analysis is based on the assump serious works takes it for granted that he can find the essence of truth where, often, he is only too likely to swallow the quintessence of nonsense."

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Two quotations from sources as far afield as Columbia University in the United States and University of Prague will accen tuate this point. Last year the Instructor in Psychology of the Columbia University published an interesting Historical Introduc- tion to Modern Psychology. Re- viewing the specific work of Freud on Dreams, he writes:

"Such interpretations been, in general, difficult to sup- port by convincing evidence. Pread and his pupila have em- phasized the fact that the inter- pretations are frequently accepted by the patient, and play a part in the process of self-understand- ing which helps towards cure.

have

other forces are at work but pure-

materialet to the core. Its ly biological ones. The system is

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Nephew of the famous railway magnate, E. E. Harriman, at the age of 18 he began as a bank clerk and at 33 was a vice-president of he entered the firm of Harriman 'the Merchants' National. In 1909 and Company, founded by his brother and father and also became President of the Night and Day Bank In 1911 the Night and Day Bank became the Harriman Na- President.

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But since the influence of sugge¥9****! tion cannot be excluded, both arguments have failed of convinc ethical position is that of extreme ingness. Freudian dream-psyche hedonism. It ignores the objecti- logy has therefore been subject, vity of values and indeed any among his followers, to all sorts objectivity at all, since the objects of revisions, and bas been one of transcending the self are con- the aspects of his system selected sidered only as the occasions for for especially vigorous attacks by the satisfying of desires. psychologists who have demanded inherent materialism leads to an experimental confirmation of his atomistic conception of the life major tenets."

of the mind, which makes it im- possible to assume the "existence

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Dr. Lindworsky, professor of Psychology in the German Uni- versity of Prague unceremonious ly brushes aside Feud's dream theories thus:

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MAN'S TRUE NATURE Paycho-analysis has been very aptly called a psychology" from below." It believes that the "Each dream, according to higher mental processes are to be Freud, is to be understood sym-derived from the more elementary

Sunrise:-5.49 a.m.; Sunset: 7.10 bolically. Each dream is a wish ones and, in the last resort, from Tides-High at 7.34 and 22.18;. fulfilment, as a rule the fulfill biological functions. It finds the Low at 0.02 and 16.54. ment of an erotic wish from child-! essence of man's nature in hie hood. This poetic conception of lowest functions, and considers |

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a dissolute fantasy has found at that it is more clearly seen in Timothy, St. Paul wrote " For extraordinary number of adher more primitive peoples, in child-the time will come when they will ents in psychologically unschooled ren and pathological cases. The not endure sound doctrine; but, circles. Since it is frankly a psychology" from above," on the according to their own desires, invention, there is no special need contrary, holds that man's true they will heap to themselves for us to contradict it." (Experis nature manifests itself precisely in teachers, having itching ears; mental Psychology p. 385).

his highest functions, and these it and will turn away their hearing These two quotations from considers specific, not to be ex from the truth, but will be turned lecturers in psychology of two plained in terms adapted to the unto fables." It is difficult to well-known Universities are suf-lower and biological functions. compare one generation with an- ficient to place the average reader Paychology" from above be- other, but we ourselves talk more on his guard against the sweeping lieves that man's true nature will of the "modern chaoa." than the general statements of popular be manifested more truly in the gloomiest Cassandras talked of review writers. No doubt Freud best and highest developed in- ruin to the headless crowds of hus, followers, and has followers dividuals; that the genius will let their day. The New Paycho- amongst peychologists in prominus see more of human nature than logies many of them, are in no ent positions, as for instance Pro- the idiot, the hero more than the small measure responsible for fessor Flugel of University Colinmate of an asylum, the saint muddled thought, and the popular lege, London. Freud himself more than the criminal. Psycho-providers of Golden Keya leave us wrote *** I am sure only of one analysis is emphatically a pay without any standard of mental thing, that the judgments of value chology “from below."** currency. The time has surely made by mankind are immediate-Im bis second Epistle to come when they are turned unto ly determined by their desires for (Continued at foot of next column]} fables,"

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