"The personalities come and go in kaleidoscopic succession,
many changes often being made in the course of twenty-four hours."
"By a breaking up of the original personality at different moments
along different lines of cleavage, there may be formed several different
secondary personalities which may take turns with one another."
— Morton Prince, The Dissociation of a Personality ,
Longmans, Green, and Co., 1906, pages 2 and 3.
Related reading . . .
"Sometimes a wind comes before the rain
and sends birds sailing past the window,
spirit birds that ride the night,
stranger than dreams."
— The end of DeLillo's Point Omega
Meanwhile on that YouTube date . . .
"You probably couldn't come up with a more stinging metaphor for how
fame, for all its sensation and glitter, ultimately becomes a tombstone."
The black rectangle below is
known as the "end-of-proof symbol,"
"Halmos," or "tombstone."
* See the previous post, "Raiders of the Lost Box."
The "Facets" tag in this morning's previous post,
"The Portable Divinity Box," suggests a look at
Box759.
In 1978, Harvard moved a structure known as the Morton Prince House
from Divinity Avenue to Prescott Street, where it occupies the former Hurlbut
Parking Lot, which was the vista from my 1960-61 freshman room.
From the Log24 post "Very Stable Kool-Aid" —
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A Letter from Timothy Leary, Ph.D., July 17, 1961
Harvard University July 17, 1961
Dr. Thomas S. Szasz Dear Dr. Szasz: Your book arrived several days ago. I've spent eight hours on it and realize the task (and joy) of reading it has just begun. The Myth of Mental Illness is the most important book in the history of psychiatry. I know it is rash and premature to make this earlier judgment. I reserve the right later to revise and perhaps suggest it is the most important book published in the twentieth century. It is great in so many ways–scholarship, clinical insight, political savvy, common sense, historical sweep, human concern– and most of all for its compassionate, shattering honesty. . . . . |
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Morton Prince, a Boston neurologist, founded the Journal of Abnormal Psychology in 1906 as an outlet especially for those who took a psychogenic view of neurotic disorders. Through experiments with hypnotism, he added appreciably to knowledge of subconscious and coconscious mental processes; The Dissociation of a Personality (Prince, 1905) still ranks as a classic. He early saw that studying normal people in the depth and detail with which one studied patients could make significant contributions to our whole understanding of human nature. Before his death he established and briefly directed the Harvard Psychological Clinic, devising the research environment out of which presently sprang major contributions to the study of personality.
— "Who Was Morton Prince?," by R. W. White, |
See as well Who Was R. W. White?
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CBS Sunday Morning today suggests a review of an old post featuring Pearl Jam. From that post . . . Mathematics and Narrative, continued… Out of What Chaos, a novel by Lee Oser— "This book is more or less what one would expect if Walker Percy wrote about a cynical rock musician who converts to Catholicism, and then Nabokov added some of his verbal pyrotechnics, and then Buster Keaton and the Marquis de Sade and Lionel Trilling inserted a few extra passages. It is a loving and yet appalled description of the underground music scene in the Pacific Northwest. And it is a convincing representation of someone very, very smart." "If Evelyn Waugh had lived amid the American Northwest rock music scene, he might have written a book like this." –Anonymous Amazon.com reviewer A possible source for Oser's title– "…Lytton Strachey described Pope's theme as 'civilization illumined by animosity; such was the passionate and complicated material from which he wove his patterns of balanced precision and polished clarity.' But out of what chaos did that clarity and precision come!" —Authors at Work, by Herman W. Liebert and Robert H. Taylor, New York, Grolier Club, 1957, p. 16 |
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