Leave Your Mind Alone?
ECAUSE Freud was born in 1856 the Mind has had a thorough going-over this year, Even the casual YC listener can scarcely help having his head sprinkled with bits of information about Psychology and Medicine, Psychology and Religion, Psychology and Education, and just plain Psychology, not to mention extrasensory perception. They’ve been good talks, most of them, and cumulatively have shown the extent to which Freud’s work has advanced that self-consciousness which is the distinguishing mark of man. But whether this popularising of the fringe of the beginning of a specialised subject is wholly a good thing I haven't yet decidedand I don’t mean only that although in some ways this new knowledge of psychology has made us more tolerant, it has also given the intolerant a fine scientific sounding vocabulary with which to damn the people they don’t like. I saw a nice quote from Olivia de Havilland the other day: "Since I have lived in France I have substituted a liver specialist for the psycho-analyst I employed in Hollywood. I feel much happier." She might have something there. Next year, I give you fair warning, our preoccupations will be different. William Blake was born in 1757, Joseph Conrad in 1857. So was my grandfather. Anyone want a talk about him?
R. D.
McE.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 902, 16 November 1956, Page 19
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219Leave Your Mind Alone? New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 902, 16 November 1956, Page 19
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