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JANET, PIERRE. Psychological Tension, Its Degrees and Oscillations. 1-16.
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1. JANET, P. Psychological Tension.—Janet here repeats with but little change his 1915 viewpoints about psychological tension in the first of three lectures given before the University of London. With his usual facile grace of presentation he speaks of the need of an objective psychology—psychobiology as Adolf Meyer has long termed it. Psychological tension is an abstraction for Janet. It is a force that makes people do things. There Is no analytical material in this very diffuse and very general paper.
2. BROWN, W., MYERS, C, MCDOUGALL, W.; Symposium on Revival of Emotional Memories in Therapy.—This discussion, before the British Psychological Association of 1920, seems to have been stimulated because of the psychoanalytic insistence on the significance of repression, which the analytical school is aware had an excellent general expression by Aristotle when he discussed emotional catharsis through the drama— Tragedy, Comedy.
The shell shocked soldiers forced physicians to come out of their farcical mediaeval and archaic humoralistic ideas of pathology, and did really wake up—partly at least—many English doctors. This discussion of Freud's earlier term (abreaction) for older conceptions rarely gets to