The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-09-08
ANDRE TRIDON
 SAYS ALICE WAS BUT PARAN0Ic
Bang goes another cherished idol,

Poor Alice was but paranoiac The well-known Alice, whose wild over and over by many children as well as by their nonsense-loving parents, has been put under the mi croscope of science and exposed for what she is, one of the maddeSt of literary dreams.
 We have Andre Tridon's word for it. He is the chief protagonist of Freud in America. And Freud, you man of science whose discoveries about dreams have made us spin around more madly than any Vien- nese valse ever could.
 dream of Alice in Wonderland long before the days of psychoanalysts such as Andre Trdion. Alice was re- ceived politely in good society and her adventures not questioned. But now let us take a dip into her subcon- scious self.
 A Fine Paranoiac Picture.
 Yes, the poor girl was surely quite Carroll projected his own strange fancies into this character of a little girl and pictured fine paranoiac!
 Alice had the delusions of great 'megalomania.' She grew so big and so far above the earth that her head was in the treetops, and then she felt lonely.
 All she could see when she looked down was an immense length of neck, which seemed to rise like a stalk out of a sea of green leaves that lay far below her.
 What can all that green stuff be?' said Alice. And where have my shoulders got to? And, oh, my poor hands, how is it I can't see you 9 She was moving them about as she spoke, but no result seemed to follow except a little shaking among the green leaves.
 Makes Them Feel Safe." z People who feel very inferior try to get big or act big for protection. ine,'' said MT. Tridon-
 And then, on the other hand, when Alice reached great size she always wanted to shrink. This desire to be sort of anger at a hostile outside world and a desire to return to the prenatal state, to the complete protection of the mother, to attain a small visibility and thus be safe.
 What a curious feeling!' said Alice T must be shutting up like telescope.'
 now only ten inches high, and her face frightened up at the thought that she was now the right size for going in through the little door into she waited for a few minutes to see if she was going to shrink any fur ther.
 Lewis Carroll, like many other are usually most interesting people. Munchausen, the famous liar, was one: As a raconteur of remarkable exploits he was almost successful failure makes them want to kill themselves,'' continued the psvcho- analyst
 What the ParanOiac Wants.
 saV--a, Sr3e- feet to dominate everything. On the other hand, the victim of dementia praecoX wants to revert to the child state an the maniac depressive form, between the two, wants to be like the paranoiac, apparently per- feet.
 Children should not read this book. It IS an escape from reality, and we must all learn to live so as to meet reality and deal with it. Children are all too prone to run away from It. It is type of book simply deadly for very young minds. All neurotics number should not be increased by letting the young read such books.'
 The description of Alice and the little bottle which had a label, Drink me" might be a mild prediction of Volsteadian proceedings.
 Tt was all very well to say Drink me- but the wise little Alice was not going to de that in a hurry
 '' No, I'll look first she said. and see whether it is marked poison or not"
 Alice was afraid of wood alcohol. evidently.
 Sees Danger to Children.
 Tridon continues:
 Even then it is doubtful whether children should be allowed to read legends at an early age. Children identify themselves too easily with the heroes of fairy tales, just as adults did in primitive races To a child of inventive, aggressive tenn perament they may be an inspiration To the dreamy child they may be an invitation to follow the line of least resistance, to dream about deeds in stead of accomplishing them, to wait for miracles, fairy godmothers and the like. But fairy tales are excellent reading for adults with a sense of reality.
 Then comes the question of Alice's friendship for many and various ami ma1s the rabbits dodos, March hares, and others.
 Children do not draw the same line grown-ups do between themselves and the animals. The child grants equal ity to animals explained the scfen- tist.
 How Animals Tolerate Children.
 Animals tolerate more from chil- dren than from grown-ups.
 Ut may be that such a relationship in past ages has facilitated the process of the domestication of ami mals.