The Washington herald., 1921-06-30
DIsCOyERs RELATIVELY
ENTERS NEW FIELDS.


You might call this the day of
relativity," said E. J. Lanbury. Of
Chicago. at the Shoreham. Elm
stein has been teaching a siderial
and dimensional relatively. Modern
philosophers have been champion
ing philosophical relativity. And
lastly. the school Of pschycology
seems to be developing a group
proelaiming a species OF psychologi-
cal relatively.
II do not know that any group
of Psychologists would be willing
to stand behind the last phrase, so
perhaps I had better explain just
what / mean by It," continued Mr..
Lanbury.
I'VE have been accustomed to
take the psychological states and
emotions. such as conceit, humility,
courage. cowardice. and considering
them as IL they were absolute en-
titles with a definite connotation
and boundaries, but the more the
psychologists analyze them. the
more the old standards must be
discarded in interpreting personal
ity.
SAYS HAUGHTINEsS
MAY BE SHYNESS.
Il might take such elementary
facts as you can md in any primer
Of any Freudian psychologist, such
as the phenomenon OF shyness.
Fifty times out of a hundred. the
man with the reputation for haugh-
tiness is merely one who is over
bashful. He walks by with his
head lifted up. seemingly too proud
to look at anyone, but as a matter
Of fact. the proud one is very often
aching to be sociatle, but he In
afraid of stopping over in the mat
ter. so he assumes the guise Of
haughtiness.
Examine closely the man you
hate" advised Mr.. Lanbury. VERY
often hate is but inverted love or
at least inverted respect. When
this affection or respect is per-
mitted no outlet, 1t becomes trans
formed into a hate complex. Hate
and love are always curiously in
termixed, and probably not until
we are more courageous in facing
the truth will we admit how often
the emotion of hate colors our feel
ings with respect to those We often
love most.
CITES CLAIMS
MADE BY FREUD.
The fact that we must face in
all of this attempt to see ourselves
as We really are Is that our per-
sonality is not dominantly the
conscious part, but the unconscious
part. as Sigmund Freud, the great
Austrian psychologist, has pointed
out.
I'm attempting this exploration
Of the unconscious. Freud has re-
sorted to the much discussed and
much attacked dream interpreta-
tion.
1T must be remembered that
when Freud used dream interpreta-
tion. he is not doing it after the
fashion of gypsy fortune tellers. 1t
isn't to forecast but to bring out
to the light some hidden through
or wish that is poisoning the mind,
that he resorts to IL. A dream is
to Freud a wish fulfllment. Per-
haps all dreams are not, but evil
dence when analyzed bears out his
contention that a great many are.
DEFENDS PRACTICE
OF PSYCHO-ANALYSIS.
we. all of Us. possess certain in
stincts. which are clamoring for ex-
preston. but which civilization has
taught US to suppress. We more
often perhaps, than we would like
to admit 1t, have thoughts and de-
sires lurking in the background of
our consciousness that are not in
accordance with conventional regu-
lations. and so we push them into
the 'hinterland' of our mind. But
nature will assert itself, and these
dreams. in which these wishes are
fulfilled in disguise so complex. that
we fail to understand their mean
ing. take place.
This may seem like treading on
somewhat dangerous ground. But
psycho-analysis is the true friend
of the human being. for to know
ourselves is not only the first step
in the promotion OF our happiness,
but the most important. We have
had the Ten Commandments for sew
eral thousand years and we are still
breaking them. Ethics must take
psychology as a handmaiden il more
sound sense is to permeate our lives
and with good sense, crime and
barbarity will sing its swan song"
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