Here, here! --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: > > > 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 > > > 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: > > >> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 I just published an article in the Psychoanalytic Review, = >> > titled =3D > >> =3D20 >> =3D93Samuel Clemens and Mark Twain: Pseudonym as Act of Reparation.=3D94 = >> > If > >> =3D20=3D >> >> anyone would like a pdf of it, send me an email. (The publisher asks =3D2= >> > 0 > >> 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 >> >> > > > > --=20 > John H. Davis, Ph.D. > Professor of English > Department of Language and Literature > Chowan University > Murfreesboro, North Carolina 27855 > > >