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Eugene Taylor

The Mystery of Personality A History of Psychodynamic Theories

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Eugene Taylor Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center 747 Front St San Francisco, CA 94111 USA [email protected]

ISBN 978-0-387-98103-1 e-ISBN 978-0-387-98104-8 DOI 10.1007/978-0-387-98104-8 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2009927014 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2009 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)

“Every man is. . . like all other men, like some other men, like no other man.” Henry A. Murray, MD, PhD (1893–1988)

Acknowledgments

Readers, I hope, will forgive me at the outset for any inordinate focus on materials in the English language and particularly my focus on dynamic theories of personality in the history of American psychology, although I have also referred to British and European sources and even touched lightly on the classical psychologies of Asia. My formal acknowledgments are gratefully extended to Mrs. Bay James Baker, literary executor of the William James Estate, for permission to refer to unpublished material in the James papers at Harvard; to Harley Holden, director emeritus at the Harvard University Archives; and to the Trustees of the Ella Lyman Cabot Trust for allowing me to establish a stewardship over the papers of Gordon Willard Allport from 1979 to 1985, which permitted me to create an index for the files and to complete the index of correspondence begun by Mrs. Kay Bruner; to Dr. Gardner Murphy for first introducing me to Anthony Sutich back in 1969; and to Dr. Lois Murphy for the chance to assist her on her biography of her husband 20 years later; to Mrs. Geraldine Stevens, for bequeathing to me before she left Harvard the 10,000 piece combined collection she had assembled alphabetically of other authors’ reprints belonging to Edwin G. Boring, Gordon Willard Allport, and Stanley Smith Stevens; to Dr. Caroline Fish Chandler Murray for the many kindnesses she extended to me during the years I worked for her husband, the late Henry A. Murray. Through Harry I met everyone who was still alive who had been connected to his era in psychology,