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La Barre, Weston. The Apperception of Attitudes.
Hitschmann, Edward. Swedenborg's Paranoia.
Bergler, Edmund. Story-Tellers and Story-Writers.
Wormhoudt, Arthur. The Unconscious Identification Words-Milk.
La Barre, Weston. The Apperception of Attitudes. Subtitled, the Responses to “The Lonely Ones” of William Steig. In all their daily behavior, whether intended or accidental, people are constantly exhibiting or betraying their inner attitude stances. Threatened by this fact, many would prefer to join an official conspiracy of silence to the effect that some human behavior is indeterminate and meaningless, and that a rigorous and unrelentingly analytic view, goes too far, i.e. arouses anxiety when it encroaches upon the areas wherein it has been culturally agreed that the Emperor is wearing beautiful clothes. One excellent way of unmistakably eliciting this unacknowledged insight people have is to confront them with the caricature of behavior, the emotionally indifferent and ethically denatured world of the cartoon. By implicitly agreeing that here in this dehumanized world (of course it is not) everything is all in fun and that we don't really mean it, humanity can be caught off guard and freed to exercise emotional apperception and projection. A few cartoons are described. It is evident that the enjoyment of these cartoons must involve the readers' unwitting insight into and apperception of the situation. Steig's volume is especially valuable in this connection. The following material contains student comments on the Steig drawings. People understand what people mean, even in disguised and highly symbolical forms, and even when everybody is busy pretending that they don't understand, or is strenuously joining in the pretense that there is no meaning, there is no basis for understanding, and anyone who maintains this is a Freudian so-and-so.
Hitschmann, Edward. Swedenborg's Paranoia. Taking for granted that Swedenborg suffered from religious paranoia, all t