Evening star., 1938-05-31

The result was feeling Of being abused
ana being held out on" In extreme
cases this led to an intense desire to
retaliate against the guilty party.
In most societies hating ones mother
Is even less approved Of than hating
ones father. It Is natural to identity
the hated mother with big business, also
the source of food and pocket money
Tor the individual, and to turn all the
pent-up murderous desire against 1t.
This Is particularly the case when 1t is
more or less socially acceptable to hate
big business. The mother can be mur-
dered by proxy with the applause of the
multitude.
A good many Of both mother-haters
and father-haters have passed through
the onnces Of Washington psychiatrists
In the past few years to be treated for
other manifestations of their peculiar
rationalizations. When they are closely
questioned. their dreams analyzed, and
their subconscious associations de-
termined, the story Of their infantile
hates usually can be brought out
usually greatly to their own surprise.
The same forces might appear, DR..
Hadley stresses, in any political set-up
where business and authority were in
conflict. It does not, of course, apply
to the great body Of moderate proponents
OF both sides.
There are deplorable number Of
persons" writes DR.. Hadley, "who trans
fer the blame for their own inadequacies
on to business. The type Of persons who,
because Of the intensity Of their reac-
tions Of thwarting, were dwarfed beyond
their capacity to adapt successfully In
living and who make tenuous maladap-
tations or for other reasons belong to
the multitude who 'have-not,' are well
known by their actions Of antagonism
against business or against those who
have
I'VE have before us the vast problem
which these failures represent. They
seriously threaten our national economy.
The individual as such is not personally
responsible for failure. His failure is
the effect of the warp in the culture
medium in which he was spawned. AS
q business problem, however, these fail
ures are not only drain upon our re-
sources but also powerful, If still poten-
tial. sources Of danger.
!. Meanwhile business has more i'm
mediately to deal with the type of per-
SSAA ASSSAAoSo do d1 aEAtdVOk. W OklG WHO
uses the pattern Of playing off the moth
er against the father, and vice versa,
for his own personal advantage. Study
Of this type Of action has revealed how,
In the face Of rebuff from both parents,
the inventive mind Of the child has
exploited the weaknesses of either par
ent, in force with the opposite parent, to
gain the advantage and attention he
otherwise lacked. Besides the antagon-
ism involved in this type Of child-parent
relationship, sturdy contempt Is de-
vepped for both Of them. Thus the
agitator. and sometimes the propa-
gandist, or political spellbinder, fire.
Quently and quite unconsciously brings
trouble or disaster upon those he pur-
ports to help.
Moreover. have found in the po-
htical reforner type, the one who cants
repeatedly at business, the unconscious
drives both of revenge and Of struggle
to regain the vague and illusory salts
factions Of the infant-maternal Utopia.
From my clinical experience gain
the impression that the unrecognized
antagonism toward government heads
met with IN business men sprang largely
from the unconscious hatred Of the faith
er, whereas the hostility Of government
heads toward business sprang more