Evening star., 1938-05-31
STARS, MEN AND ATOMS
Notebook of Science Progress in Field,
Laboratory and Study.
~ THOMAS R. HENRY.

The New Deal and big business-or
caricatures Of both which have become
symbolic-have been psycho-analyzed.
One seems to be suffering from
father-hate and the other from q
mother hate complex.
This is the way Dr.. Ernest e. Hadley,
Washington psychiatrist, explains the
motivation of extremist proponents Of
both viewpoints, such as have been &C.
tive about the Capital during the past
few years. The psychiatric viewpoint is
expounded In the first issue Of Psychia-
try, journal Of the William A. White
Psychiatric Foundation, which has just
been issued.
While not specifically mentioning the
DR.. Hadley gives this Interpretation OF
the attitudes Of those who advocate ex-
treme curbs on business.
Hatred Of one or both parents, DR..
Hadley explains, Is . common develop
ment in early childhood. It is quickly
submerged into the unconscious levels
Of the mind, however, as q child comes
to realize that 1t Is unspeakably wicked
to hate a parent. There 1t remains 70
color the future attitudes Of the indi-
vidual as he identifies various forces
which It is ethically correct to hate With
mother or father.
The father is generally the source OF
authority and the disciplinarian OF the
family. II he wields his authority stern
", irrationally or tactlessly he is In dam
ger of arousing the actual hate OF his
children. They may, however, also love
the father in some other aspect. There
is . conflict between the love and hate
in which the latter Is pushed out OF the
upper levels Of the mind.
Il must find its expression In some
line, DR.. Hadley points out. The easiest
way Is to set up an image Of the father,
containing all his bad characters, ana
wreck vengeance on this image. The
easiest way to do this Is to take some
thing already In existence and identity
it with the father.
The Government, especially Of late,
stands to the business man for Meddle-
some authority, restriction Of privileges,
etc. He identifies 1t with the father,
exaggerates in his own mind its injus-
tice, and hates it with an intensity far
beyond what is justified by anything it
has done to him. This is especially
true, 1t is stressed, since some Of the
very qualities which have led to success
In business may have come from this
same buried father hate, with the arhbi-
tions 1t aroused to obtain vengeance
against the parent by showing him up as
an inferior figure in the world Of affairs.
The explanation obtains, of course,
where the "hate-Roosevelt" spirit passes
bounds where the hater nationally can
Justify the degree Of his hate and where
it usually finds expression only in pri-
vate and perhaps tipsy conversations
with cronieS.
On the other hand there are the ex-
tremist New Dealers in Washington
who, also usually in private conversation,
express the most intense hatred for
business, feel that the Government has
not gone nearly far enough In curbing
1t, and would welcome Its destruction
altogether by some form Of totalitarian
state. When they were very small boys
and girls they probably hated their
mothers and have gone through much
the same process Of identification and
transfer as the father-haters. The
mother, both In nursing days and later,
was the source Of all supplies. It was
she who fed tho child. It was she to
whom It appealed later for pocket money,
ease Of its hurts, etc. She never could.
r would supply al the child wanted