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Dr. Freud and Dr. Spock Syracuse University SURFACE The Courier Libraries 1995 Dr. Freud and Dr. Spock James Sullivan Rutgers University Follow this and additional works at: https://surface.syr.edu/libassoc Part of the Arts and Humanities Commons Recommended Citation Sullivan, James, "Dr. Freud and Dr. Spock" (1995). The Courier. 328. https://surface.syr.edu/libassoc/328 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Libraries at SURFACE. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Courier by an authorized administrator of SURFACE. For more information, please contact [email protected]. SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY ASSOCIATES COURIER VOLUME XXX· 1995 SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY ASSOCIATES COURIER VOLUME XXX 1995 An Interview with Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie By PaulJ. Archambault, Professor ofFrench, 5 Syracuse University The renowned historian Le Roy Ladurie dicusses his influences, his writing, his career as scholar and director ofthe Bibliotheque Nationale, and his views on Europe's religious, economic, and political inheritance. Gustav Stickley and Irene Sargent: United Crafts and The Craftsman By Cleota Reed, Research Associate in Fine Arts, 35 Syracuse University Reed sheds light on the important role played by Irene Sargent, a Syracuse University fine arts professor, in the creation ofGustav Stickley's Arts and Crafts publications. An Interview with Thomas Moore By Alexandra Eyle, Free-Lance Writer 51 Introduction by David Miller, Professor ofReligion, Syracuse University Moore talks about readers' reactions to his best-selling books, the contem­ porary hunger for meaning, his "nonmodel" oftherapy, and his own circuitous path to success. Dr. Freud and Dr. Spock ByJames Sullivan, Doctoral Candidate, Rutgers University 75 Sullivan explains how Benjamin Spock translated psychoanalytic ideas about adults into practical advice for raising healthy children, and how Freud's ideas also influenced Spock's political philosophy. Arna Bontemps's Creole Heritage By Charles L.James, Professor ofEnglish, Swarthmore 91 College James traces the lives ofBontemps's central Louisiana ancestors and the social upheavals they endured before, during, and after the Civil War. Peaks ofJoy, Valleys ofDespair: The History ofthe Syracuse University Library from 1871 to 1907 By David H. Starn, University Librarian, Syracuse 117 University Drawing on a variety ofsources, Starn presents engaging samples oflife in the early days ofthe Syracuse University Library. The Planning and Funding ofthe E. S. 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Stone Papers From the Collections Two Poems by Robert Southwell A Declaration ofLoyalty to Country, 1775 Introducing The Library ofModernJewish Literature Library Associates Program for 1995-96 Dedicated to William Pearson Tolley (1900-1996) Dr. Freud and Dr. Spock BY JAMES SULLIVAN ON THE AFTERNOON of II July 1971, Dr. Benjamin Spock braced himself for his address to the National Women's Political Caucus in Washington, D.C. The audience was hostile; Spock meant to speak on behalfofa coalition ofprogressive political par­ ties, but the women seated before him had not forgiven Spock for the sexism that slanted his famous child-rearing advice. Some women walked out as he began speaking. When he concluded, Spock gripped the podium as Gloria Steinem, founder ofMs. mag­ azine, rose from the middle ofthe audience and thundered, "Dr. Spock, I hope you realize you have been a major oppressor of women in the same category as Sigmund Freud!" Spock hung his head in shame, or so some believed. Actually he was looking down at the lectern, trying to compose some response, and feeling a little proud to be placed in the same category as Dr. Freud.1 Steinem's denunciation hit the mark; the theories of Freud, known broadly as psychoanalysis, formed the foundation of Spock's pediatric advice and political philosophy. In the I930S Spock had studied psychoanalysis at the N ew York Psychoanalytic Institute while practicing pediatrics. In 1946 Spock published The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care, which translated psy­ choanalytic theories about adult neuroses into practical advice for James Sullivan received a B.A. and an M.A. in United States history from the University of Florida. He is currently finishing a Ph.D. at Rutgers University, where he is writing his dissertation about Dr. Spock, popular psychology, and political culture. Note: The author thanks Kimberly Brodkin for her helpful suggestions and claims persistent weaknesses as his own. I. Washington Post, 12 July 1971; Benjamin M. Spock, telephone interview by author, 26January 1994. Steinem's quote is in Mary Morgan and Benjamin M. Spock, Spock on Spock: A Memoir of Growing Up with the Century (New York: Pantheon Books, 1985),247-8. Note that Spock's memoir errs on the date and that inJuly 1971 Spock was not yet a candidate for the U.S. presidency. Syracuse University Library Associates Courier Volume XXX, 1995 75 raising children. A milestone in pediatrics, Baby and Child Care re­ flected the broader impact on professional medicine of Freud's work, which marked the transition from a strictly biological under­ standing ofmental phenomena to a more psychological approach. Psychoanalysis informed Spock's politics as well, shaping his cri­ tique of the United States war in Vietnam and of the emerging feminist movement.2 Psychoanalysis arrived on American shores in 1909. In the au­ tumn ofthat year Freud made his first and only visit to the United States where he delivered five lectures on psychoanalysis as part of the twentieth anniversary celebration of the founding of Clark University. Dr. Granville Stanley Hall, the president ofClark and a key figure in the founding of experimental psychology in the United States, had invited Freud to present his then-new theories to an audience of prominent American academics and medical practitioners. Carl Jung and Sandor Ferenczi accompanied Freud, and, along with the eminent American academic WilliamJames, all were house guests of Hall in the small Massachusetts city of Worcester, forty miles outside of Boston. Each morning, while walking through the surrounding woodlands, Freud composed his thoughts for the day's lecture, which he delivered extempore in German. Gratified by the respect accorded him at Clark, Freud ap­ proached each day eager to persuade his audience, and the intro­ ductory lectures he delivered there remain perhaps the clearest exposition ofearly psychoanalytic theory on record.3 2. Spock, The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care (New York: Duell, Sloan, and Pearce, 1945). A similar argument may be found in A. Michael Sul­ man, "The Freudianization ofthe American Child: The Impact ofPsychoanaly­ sis in Popular Periodical Literature in the United States, 1919-1939," (Ph.D. diss., University ofPittsburgh, 1972). 3. Boston Evening Transcript, 8 September 1909; Ibid., II September 1909. Freud's lectures were published in English as Sigmund Freud, "The Origin and Development of Psychoanalysis," The American Journal of Psychology 21 (April 19IO): 181-218; and Freud, "Five Lectures on Psycho-Analysis," inJames Stra­ chey, ed. and trans., The Standard Edition ofthe Complete Psychological Works ofSig­ mund Freud (London: The Hogarth Press, 1966), 11:1-58. Hereafter The Standard Edition will be referred to as SE. An exhaustive account ofthe Clark Conference may be found in Saul Rosenzweig, Freud,Jung, and Hall the King-Maker: The His- Before the Clark Conference in 1909, only a handful ofAmeri­ can doctors had heard anything ofFreud's work, and even in Eu­ rope Freud's ideas had gained little acceptance. Before the advent of dynamic psychology, medical professionals understood mental disorders almost exclusively in terms ofbiological mechanics. That is, doctors assumed that all mental phenomena were the result of the physical operation of the nervous system, and they strove to manipulate the tangible world ofthe body to achieve cures in the more elusive realm ofthe mind. This strictly biological approach facilitated experimentation and observation, distinguishing neurol­ ogy, psychiatry, and psychology as "scientific" pursuits and separat­ ing medical professionals from spiritual healers, exorcists, and various other lay enthusiasts. Unfortunately, medicine's commit­ ment to a physiological etiology ofmental disorders led to discour­ agingly few effective treatments; prescriptions of diet, massage, exercise, or bed rest did little for those suffering from emotional or neurological disturbances. In the first decades ofthe twentieth cen­ tury, physicians in the field of mental health were searching for
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