Discussion of Martin Grotjahn's Article, The New Technology and Our Ageless Unconscious

Permit me first to offer a sincere testimonial to psychoanalysis. Before my own analysis, I

did not believe in “the Unconscious” (used as a noun). After my ordeal, I now know the term to be a highly useful concept, exquisitely designed to hide fuzzily panchrestic thinking. Since this utility, being indispensable to human comfort, is “ageless,” I am in thorough agreement with the title chosen for his paper by Dr. Grotjahn—who, as I tell him and everyone else, has long been my good, great and egregious friend. But as to his main theses:

I am not among the “we who have recognized two different personality types,” other than that perhaps there are two types of persons, one of which recognizes “two different personality types.”

I no longer even think I know what abstrusely arcane analytic aphorisms mean, e.g.: “repression of narcissism” (what thought or act is not self-assertive?—and when Narcissus deserted his appropriately named Mistress Echo, was it for “love of himself”—irritating tautology—or of his self-reflective image?); or

“anal impertinence” (unless poet Grotjahn literally means auto-exhaust flatus)—and so on ad nepentham.

But I do know this: as a musician who likes to muse and be amused, I admire Dr. Grotjahn's felicitous phonemes, rhythmic rhetoric and homiletic harmonics—so herewith my applause, in hopes for a responsive encore.