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as arrows, poetry, ete., is a better
theory, but it can be explained ~in
terms of accumulation. There is no
reason to agree with the psycho-
analyst that it takes a higher form of
intelligence to create an automobile
than a bow and-arrow. IX rejecting
these theories and also that of His-
torical Reconstructionism, in terms of
which to explain data, it must. be
pointed. out that they too Yassume
psychic unity, yet do not ve it
Furthermore they must assump the
» Group Mind, or superorganism, which
is neither Scientifically verified nor
necessary for explanatory purposes.
"Psychic unity explains the parallels
more simply than the other theories
through an identity of structure in
man, “through similar causation in
each case.” .. .

There is much confusion and abuse
‘of the word “primitive” as used by
anthropologists. It means simple as
‘opposed to complex, or old and archaic
in time, or, with reference to modern
‘peoples, unliterate as opposed to pre-
iterate. Even in the- last sense
the word does not stand for an entity.
because the unliterate peoples of to-
‘day show great diversity. Psycho-
,analysts and historical restructionists
fail frequently because they tear data
from ,its context, and by omission
itwist ‘the facts to fit their theories.
‘Primitive . peoples of tod ave in
general as long a time-span behind

them as civilized peoples; the notion

that they are survivals of real primi-
tives is based upon an unsound as-
sumption. Primitive psychology is a
recent study, and for the most part
‘it is merely psychologizing ~ about
forms and institutions, a confusion
between primitive behavior and social
forms.

 

Robert Taylor, tinemactor, has do-
nated $250 to Stanford University: for
the study ef the psychology of the
theater.

 

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pussies Risitianion: by Dorothy
Sayers, Harcourt, Brace & Co.
* As a means to promote a more well-
ordered, less-nervous undergraduate
life, Merion Hall has begun a Re-
laxation’ Library, to include light fic-
tion, good and bad, detective stories,
new and old, and trash. So’far they

have gathered together some eight.vol-
umes, including Michael Arlen’s_ post-

 

stark saga and one of Ethel M. Dell’s
thrillers.
sacked on coming weekends for cast-
off favorites, and the Hall soon hopes
to boast complete sets of such classic
authors as P. G. Wodehouse, Edgar
Wallace and Kathleen Norris. 5
Not precisely in this category, but
rapidly beginning to ‘challenge its
popularity is the latest work of Doro-
thy. Sayers, that queen of detective
story writers. - Lord’ Peter Wimsey,
the sleuth who “is what Philo Vance
might have been,” encounters a corpse
in the basement of the house where
he has just begun his honeymoon and
proceeds to solve the crime. It would
be cheating to reveal any more of the
plot than this. Nevertheless, ‘those
followers of Petah and his romance
with Harriet Vane, which has been
slowly gathering fire since’ Strong
Poison, at least books ago, will
be interested to know their mar-
riage seems to be working out with
practically idyllic success. If Peter’s
urbahity, wit, physique and monocle
have been a romantic stimulus to the
hearts of his readers, they may be due
for a shock in Busman’s Honeymoon.
He is now’ thoroughly domesticated
and, moreover, so frank and analytical
in his discussion of ‘his: great love,
that the aura which was. lent him by
his English reserve is almost dissi-
pated. This is too bad; but Lord Peter
has become a real character in the
last two stories at least; and one must

 

 

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fascinating. Miss Sayers is, in the
real ability, if a little too addicted to
familiar quotations. It is ironic that
the same critics who dawned her early
attempts at serious novel writing now
damn her latest detective story for

interrupting the course of her roman-
tie narrative, which is excellent.
Another factor that adds to the in-

terest of Busman’s Honeymoon in the

eyes of Merion Hall is its current ap-
pearance in play form on the London
stage, where the part of Lord Peter is
taken by an actor who does not meas-
ure up at all in physical perfection
to the requirements of such an ‘heroic
role.. Rumor also hath it that Donald
Blackwell, of New York, is. casting
A Busman’s Honeymoon for Broadway
presentation. Rumor hath not been
voluable on the subject of late, ’tis
true, but ’twas in the air about three
weeks ago.

Two little-“Merionites’ have pur-
chased first American editions of this
new classic, which they secrete in the
fastness of their drawers to enjoy in
late evening leisure arid: into the small
hours of the night. pd ie

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son’s statemént that the roots of ex-
perimental psychology were in the
laboratory, saying that another root.
was in the clinic, inf the: study of ab-
In spite of ‘the
dangers which might develop from

 

noimal psychology.

drawing conclusions from the. abnor-
mal and applying them directly -to
the normal, there is,’ however, real

value in studying the abnormal as in=+.

vestigators in: many fields—for
ample, neurology—have shown.

Psychopathology, a systematic a
of mental factors, functions and
cesses in disease, is among -a number
of sciences studying pathology. It
developed at the. end of the last cen-
tury as a reaction against clinical
psychiatry which in seeking always
the somatic causes of aburant be-
havior neglected the equally import-
ant psychological causes.

The founder of modern psychopa-
trology was Jean Martin Charcot,
who indicated the role of ideas in the

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development of hysterical symptoms by

describing a connection between emo-
tional experiences or ideas which the
patient had had and the symptoms de-
veloped. Being primarily a neurolo-
gist, however, he did not develop this
theory of psychogenesis of mental dis-
orders. -It was left to Janet, Freud
and Prince to demonstrate in greater
détail the role of psychological factors
in hysteria. By hypnosis they were
able to induce in normal individuals
many hysterical’ symptoms and to
bring about changes-in body func-
tions over which we do not. ordinarily
have voluntary control. ‘They and
successors thus demonstrated

 

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Goodhart, February 23. es the first
lecture of his extra-currictlar course
in stage’ production, Mr. Alexander
Wyckoff-explained a number of prac-
\tical stagehand’s terms and concluded
with the beginning of a ‘brief resume
of the 2,000 year-long development of
the various aspects of the “so-called
modern” ‘theater. About. sixty people
attended the first class'and a list of
supplementary reading was suggested.

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the role of psychic factors in health
and disease.

In psychopathology’ S second con-
tribution, the déiionstration of uncon-
scious psychie processes, the methods
of hypnosis as welF-as.other later de-
veloped - techniques were )employed.
Di-sociation ‘(phenomena were thus dis-
covered in which unconscious mental
processes were found to be existing in
the mind contemporaneously with, but
independently of, the conscious
thoughts. of individuals.

This work suggested ‘the question
as to whether there were not other
unconscious factors as yet unfound.

Accordingly a systematic investiga=_

tion of the unconscious has been made
which has resulted in a tremendous .
contribution. to the understanding of
the nature of man.

The mind of man ‘as seen by the
modern psychologist has a much
broader setting than. it had to the
early workers in the field, and while
“the nature of man is not so nice, it
is a great deal more interesting.”

 

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