New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 26, 1929, Page 15

ienceand Law Go to the Mat Over Freud The Strange “Transfer” Powers of Psychoanalysis as Evinced in the Case of Millionaire McCormick’s Complexes and His Wife’s WIFE'S ATTORNEY Newton D. Baker, Formsr Secretary of War, Quoted as Terming Peychoanalysis a Fantastic and Exploded Theory ~ ; ¢ 1 b : 33 N : _Was Adjudged incompetent. § 31 | She Contended in Her Suit That Her & ! ‘ \ L : ; Hiee il Husband Had Been Removed from the i 5 . ' . ; . b : e Sphere of Her Affectionate Influence 138 1, . e »[A‘\ I:? ny(h?am\lvsi‘. A Petition That Nl ) olled by the She Be Given Complete Control of 3 | sy ORIGIN OF COMPLEX sician. If the ana McCormick Was Denied. i } ‘Oedipus and the Sphinx,” from the Famous succeeds in establ i _’ Painting by Ingres. Prof. Marston Explains in St sfer of a love is & very broad and Y1 i the Accompanying Article How Oedipus Fell i atient’s affections he then A ; i ng ipus Fell in otion. It is quite possibl i3 i WL I M R e Yanrant oy F e proceeds to utilize this love control by : Tt € (Dossty’e R ‘ Wit p T o1 B s H | Relationship, and Why Psychoanalysis Adopted commanding the patient to readjust . ) RETROIG ok ey i I the Term with Reference to Similar Modern Cases his per: i i decply and permanent But there is N R NECROMANCERS? 3 personality and emotions in such a | : u N ! 3 MANCE s 4 el always a danger that an over-passion- N 1 Gartoon by William Cibton: Showing Sigmund Freud, Founder of #he Peycho- e elatas ntintar or YU htevey thase s inormal anmpl st ol coia st hisfeuresacegrdin e (OB PSR LAt ah st D NE ‘ A e T e s (i e led bean Gt thie ona i ant 1o Be, ke bevehaanalyet | e thetrics (O thespariieulap peyrli Steplovetoone i LD N i« Who Might Be Asking: “What st m ach the conclusion that attempts to remove them or . Aanalyst who is conduct e L nto nE o miny will interfere A ) Y W the patient suffers from' a dipus SRR e X i’ 23 seriously th any other love fo By PROF. W3, M. S ARSTOY patient suffers from' an Ocdipus mate” them by establishing exceed: If these theories are sound and ; 101 0T L ’ s , : RURGLE GRS e T wnd the persons. In short, there is undoubtedly . | (Lecturer on Psychology at Columbia Nages and innermost ¢motions of his patient UORLOE B DERCONIINO LiOTRY a grave love danger in t i N University, Author of “Emaotions i 1 3 g o o - gufficiently strong, then the 5 sl { / The C done by effectine what is ) method of treatment. 'l S : 3 of Normal People,” Ltc.) he name, Oedipus complex, is de e e e ot Eetatgly Bleseliot Dy method ot Moo e -, HEN a man submits to a psy the old Greek (z:‘u which affections from all other per ‘""fl.],\\‘ hzwrn:v\ (1:TL’V.0N(1 the . cor- t alwaye mu:t face the pos o s el e drderien of o king name Oedipus, who sons to the psychoanalyst himself. S iU s ofpRmoue neat Binealien N some nervous disorder, docs L Lot el e S e L T ordinary the patient may be much w AEb VD gt lorste | ! pus, sueen actu- language, of making the patient fall ! i ) can never ag one else | e it e o o Taatama i ally was his mother. When Oedi language, of making the patient fall e was before beginning the treat LR ] FnA e 08 W at (Ve ROl AorHHB AR B e G e R (AL S etei e lovelu b IR en ey ehasnal st Sl s ha il spon v Lievio he has readjusted ality to b proceeds to “re-transfer” the p his wife? When a wife permits her husband patien ble advantage i perso be must be a ken with horror at his own act and one person feels for another, the more of nded himself, eventually dying as a complete also is the control which the fades very guick 3 to undergo a psychoanal does f".:'lmil}‘]'. v(ntl L }-Iulet‘ :‘)‘. A-A{mr»c over his uninte! loved person exercises over the lover. 1en gence and sterling integrity place her future happiness in the psy asey It 0 S misuescs It is the theory of the We all know of es where other. affections away from himsclf and to Personally, if | were suffering from | 2 psychoanalyst that men who have un- wise staid and respectable men have ward some person or persons selected a mental d which might be cured by psychoa tigate the characte: choanalyst’s hands? In short, do the methods which psy- would in and intelligence it has - consclously «};M wined erotic desircs become utterly infatuated with beauti. by himself as best qualified to enj [eecs for their mothers suffer remorse and ful dancers and chorus girls with the ~these affegtions permanently that our ng beau is v A AP AT, O el R choanalysts use in the attempt to cure n o th mental lict in the same way that result that the girl can “twist the man Sometimes more difficult to et this the psychoanalyst very care s did in the fable around her little finger.” Love passion, ‘Te-transter” of the patient's love to R e s e conclusions the ai A e e e toter §owillian and someone clse than it was in the first care and manipulation g i Sialee R e e “hi beloved. Hie aets place to bring about a transfer of his 1 should want to be sure that the wnd situations which : tient's dr pear in his pa- are no longer dictated by reason or love to the choanalyst. hoanalyst who was to obtain a I D s 1o aotuntary coatrol. They are dictated | have personally encountered in control over D i o res Cthe atienoe sip solaly by the commands of the person my own consultation practice several would use ¢ T s i o desies reveal themselves, de. who controls his affections so utterly. cates where the ‘“re-transfer” was good and no e interprets previously enjoyed! dream These questlons and many ot} L T 1t his patient has ?:m'\]w:x' [/nv (xl\m T‘r-kflr : s of Mr: 1 At e 4\“1(:‘@,1,1 4“' 1},]),\(1"!{\:\ utlmmt attempt vol It is preci this sort of control never satisfactorily completed. As a And 1 should also want to be sure ic mind by the rec of Mrs. h 5 ourse, mar y to conceal them e et ‘Which_ the psveho: result, in such cases, the patient s left that his theories of how my persona el e Tase to be analyzed OF course, there are many other ab: amlyst surks to establish under the permanently in love with the psycho- should be r Glar ity guardians of her husband, Stanley, peychoanalyst defiuitely mormal desiras snd compitses which {eop Uen er? Déyehounalysts, lod analyst. This is more apt to happen ccientific o d on known facts 3 i ] who subjected him, she says, to the : e nay be discovered in different pa- by Freud, have discovered th t only in where the patient is a woman and the to in rovement in my emo- § < B0, o erotic sym. tients, besides the Oedipus complex. this way can a patient’s innermost psychoanalyst is a man. thonal condition AR | treatment of a famous psycho Jyist in an effort to effect his cure from S@me Sensible Contests in This Year’s Silly S mental disorders. Mrs. McCormick is legal sented by Newton D. B Secretary of War, who brin allegations against the psy tical methods of trc ;:um]m. as Lhe ly former serious IOSS— § mentally unt nced patients threaten § to wreck the closest and deares relationships which their patients had : argues that a wife tate the methods u treatment of her husband Psychoanalysis, according to Mrs. McCormick's petition for the removal ’ of her millionaire husband's co-guar- dians, is a method of treatment wh has been directed toward alienating McCormick's affections from his wife rather than toward his cure. These are serious charges. They affect directly the futures of thousands of persons who are, eve1 now, seeking a cure in psychoanalytical methods for various mental and emotional ailments. More than that, these charges bid fair to in- fluence in a serious way the future of 7 ical science. meldict-h(\v ave trae, and if the court up- H. Hansen and G. Eaves, ’ ) polds Drs. MeCormick’s petition, itwill Whe Sawed an 18-inch \ ot be legally safe in the future for Timber in 16 any psychoanalyst to undertake the Seconds. treatment of any husband ot wife without the mate’s consent. In light of these facts, the public is ent § know the true nature h S y sis. To most people for something mysteriou power: % ful in the nature of ¢ or hypno- 2 H tism. Somehow it seems that the ps P § choanalyst learns the deepest d most intimate secrets of his patier and then proceeds to readjust tient’s personality in such a way the nervousness or mental abno vanishes in_thin air. Now. then, HE thick of Summer weather— TRAY JUGGLERS questions arise: e ] &l 3 : ch will FIRST—How does the psychoanalyst sometimes uncharitably referred irls Employed by a London Tea-Shop ers in good stead one IR o dons e %o na the “silly season’—usually Freve Their Adroituess in This Tricky tient’s hidden desires and erotic long- finds ordinarily sane people doing 1A the )(\fimfl of year, within the ¥ i SECOND—How does the psycho- l{/fl o Miss ik dna Aslin 117 &Imm; :0- “t?r\k :fi o t»o“smr" SRR f ‘\1“?1! Summer stunts, however, are s perspiring miml.‘mn‘on \;)\ 4 3 analyit attampt to readjust the pac /, s v (Shown at Right Leading dered by the heat. 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