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Intolerance of minor insults will ruin great projects.
The past is never dead. It's not even past … The present, you know, began 10,000 years ago, but the past began one minute ago.
How to penetrate the covert level of an alien culture is still one of the most difficult problems which confront the investigator. Since most of any society's attitudes operate at the unconscious level, they can rarely be ascertained by direct questioning … The investigator … must be able to perceive the emotional context of situations and to understand much that is left unsaid.
When I told Carl Schorske of beginning my work teaching psychoanalysis in China, he said: “It occurs to me that western scholars like you seem to walk in the footsteps of the Jesuit fathers of the late sixteenth century who brought western science to the Celestial Empire. (One of them served, I seem to remember, as Astronomer Royal) … To think that you will educate the Chinese analysts! I wonder what my good friend Joseph Levinson [I took two of Levinson's courses on China as a graduate student. PL] would have said to that turn in the Confucian tradition …” (personal communications, April 30 and December 28, 2007). With his unfailing sense of