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--Steve Hoffman


Martin D. Zehr wrote:
> The news that there is a psychoanalytic interpretation of Sam Clemens's ado=
> ption and use of a pseudonym is hardly surprising, to say the least.=A0 Lik=
> e alchemy, another discipline which conveniently ignores pesky facts, the r=
> econstruction/deconstruction of history to fit sometimes attractive, if not=
>  entertaining theories, is a mainstay of psychoanalysis, and interpretation=
>  of Clemens's use of "Mark Twain" as a form of reparation may well be anoth=
> er example.=A0 Instead of noting the obvious, or simplest explanation, psyc=
> hoanalysis often deposits layers of intellectual effluvium in service of te=
> nuous theories, and I suspect this latest development may constitute yet an=
> other example.=A0 Consider the following:
> =A0
> Artemus Ward - Charles Farrar Browne
> Petroleum Vesuvius Nasby - David Ross Locke
> Orpheus C. Kerr ("Office Seeker") - John Newell
> Josh Billings - Henry Wheeler Shaw
> Dan DeQuille - William Wright
> Mark Twain - Samuel Langhorne Clemens
> =A0
> Notice a pattern here?=A0=20
> As Freud himself observed, "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."
> =A0
> Martin Zehr
> Kansas City
>
> --- On Mon, 11/22/10, John Davis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> From: John Davis <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: new article on psychology of Clemens' pseudonym
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Monday, November 22, 2010, 7:55 AM
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> Please send me one as well ([log in to unmask]).=A0 Thanks.
>
> On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Richard Waugaman, M.D. <[log in to unmask]>w=
> rote:
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>> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 I just published an article in the Psychoanalytic Review, =
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>> =3D93Samuel Clemens and Mark Twain: Pseudonym as Act of Reparation.=3D94 =
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> If
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>> anyone would like a pdf of it, send me an email. (The publisher asks =3D2=
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> 0
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>> that the article not be posted on any website.)
>>
>> Richard M. Waugaman, M.D.
>> Training & Supervising Analyst Emeritus,
>> Washington Psychoanalytic Institute
>> Clinical Professor of Psychiatry,
>> Georgetown University School of Medicine
>> Reader, Folger Shakespeare Library
>> email: [log in to unmask]
>> 301-654-9771
>> 301-656-3437 Fax
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> --=20
> John H. Davis, Ph.D.
> Professor of English
> Department of Language and Literature
> Chowan University
> Murfreesboro, North Carolina 27855
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