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A tale of telepathic healing gone astray, May Sinclair’s “The Flaw in the Crystal” (1912) dramatically interrogates the boundaries between self and other:
In the process of getting at Harding to heal him [Agatha] had had to destroy, not only the barriers of flesh and blood, but those innermost walls of personality that divide and protect, mercifully, one spirit from another. With the first thinning of the walls Harding’s insanity had leaked through to her, with the first breach it had broken in. (“Flaw” 176)
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See, for example, Christie’s “The Hound of Death” and “The Strange Case of Sir Arthur Carmichael”, both of which conflate psychology and “the occult sciences” (Agatha Christie, The Golden Ball and Other Stories. 1924. New York: Berkeley, 1984: 136).
Brill, A.A. Translator’s Preface. Selected Papers on Hysteria and Other Psychoneuroses. 1909. 2nd Edn. New York: Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases Publishing Co., 1912.
Several psychologists followed Woodworth’s lead, including John Thomson Maccurdy (Problems in Dynamic Psychology. A Critique of psychoanalysis and suggested formulations. Cambridge: University Press, 1923).
Thomas Verner Moore (Dynamic Psychology. An Introduction to Modern Psychological Theory and Practice. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1924).
As early as 1916, Alfred Booth Kuttner wrote a “Freudian Appreciation” of Sons and Lovers..
Daniel Weiss, Oedipus in Nottingham: D.H. Lawrence (1962).
Daniel Schneider, D.H. Lawrence. The Artist as Psychologist (1984).
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Johnson, G.M. (2006). Introduction. In: Dynamic Psychology in Modernist British Fiction. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230288072_1
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