Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-12-13
SCIENCE PROVES
AID TO AUTHORS
PsychoanaIysis Enables One to
Choose Right Thing.

| NEW YORK, Dec 13-Be psyche
analyzed If you're a struggling author,
or one temporarily unable to finish your
work.
According to Floyd Dell, weu-known
novelist and editor. the searching proc
| ess Of this analysis will release your
energy and will enable you instinctively
to choose the right thing to do instead
Of wasting your time in several direc-
tions.
THE most important thing psy-
choenalysis does,' says Mr.. Dell, 'ls
TO release your energy. Before that you
had just as much energy, but a great
| part of 1t was wasted trying to decide
what to do and how to do 1t.
| That psychoanalysis does meet the
needs Of many persons of literary apti-
tudes is declared also by Mrs. Elida
| Evans, herself a psychoanalyst and
author.
MANY who have tried and failed, in
| any profession, after thorough analysis
/ which takes many months, meet with
success" says Mrs. Evans. "Mr. Dell is
| right.
ut is necessary to find out what holds
such person back from his desired ex
preston or attainment. One must find
/ why this man or woman is not free to
carry out his or her plans.
! Dream analysis is the only way to
| find out what Is holding back energies
! In the unconscious"
| Unconscious instead of subcon-
scious? D. the speaker was asked.
| Decidedly. yes" replied Mrs. Evans.
Mind is either conscious or not. There
is on 'subconscious' During sleep we are
| unconscious.
ENVIRONMENT ALWAYS
CHECKS DEVELOPMENT.
| Environment has always been a great
deterrent to development Of different
sorts. In cases of children, of which
! have made a special study, this is very
noticeable Nervous, irritable children
are the victims of their surroundings,
and instead Of being mistreated, accord
| ing to the popular idea, are sometimes
/ really loved to death. They are OPP
| pressed with kindness In such cases
! I recommend Il change.
| I'm childhood an idea may be i'm
| planted that win deter that child when
/ he is older. In this way energy may
be anchored to something in childhood
| long since forgotten by the conscious
! mind, but still able to hold its victim
! back.
/ For instance, I know Of a case Of
grown man who in boyhood WAS called
coward. he spent most Of his life try
/ ing to prove he wasn't a coward and as
= consequence became a very quarrel
some. disagreeable man. He seemed to
be making a compensation to himself for
the insult OF childhood.
Mistaken ideas Of duty retard the
mental growth Of many people. We all
/ knew Of cases in which n man becomes
lawyer or n doctor because his mother
wants him to. Thus we find many peO-
I pie trying professions for which they are
unified and in which they can never he
suct essful and happy.
! 1T is Necessary TO place interest and
/ also affection. One must be fond of MS
work and must lift his derrres into some
such spiritual relations as marriage The
absess on OF sex must he eliminated. II
/ has caused enormous harm. Personally.
| I never mention It to a patient unless Il
bothers him or her In such a degree that
/ Il Is referred TO. But the 7'ost imp ,rtant
4 thing is TO sublimnte emotions and de-
! sires to 4 point where they win be medi-
ums Of expression"
! In regard 20 environment deterring
and injuring a child, what would you
say OF the case Of Opal Whitley, the
/ child author Mrs. Evans was asked.
| 1T is true that Opal, as she tells II,
was abused and neglected said Mrs.
I Evans, but we must remember that her
/ Oppressors were not her real parents. and,
/ therefore what they said and did to her
wouldn't have the same effect as II the
/ corrections and diseouragements came
( from her own flesh and blood This is
proved By the fact that Opal wrote her
/ own story In spite of everything. She
/ had push enough TO rise above her sur
roundings. She didn't suffer from being
/ loved to death.
/ "Psychoanalysis undoubtedly helps re-
[ lease energies and would aid a literary
| person suffering from some deterrent.
\ But II is a subject deplorahly misunder-
stood In this country, to which It has
been brought from Europe"
/ Floyd Dell in his praise Of the science
/ Is most grateful and enthusiastic for the
/ aid so received. He says:
In writing a novel. where, before my
analysis 1 had spent weeks trying TO ex-
/ press emotion which persisted in Guiding
me, afterward II was not elusive. l had
| Il within my grasp. and was able eonse-
( quently to aruculate swiftly and con-
/ vincingly."
1t is to be supposed that Mr.. Dell does
not mean that anyone with the wish to
be writer may. through psychoanalysis,
become one. Rather he means that If
ability is latent the examining process
viii bring IL out.
But he says he had himself psyche
analysed and did not see how a man could
write novel before such a searching
process or fail to afterward.
Where men OF talent have tried and
failed in professions such as writing, for
instance. it is reasonable to assume that