14. John Philpot Curran, “Speech on the Right of Election of Lord Mayor of Dublin,” July 10, 1790.
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Acknowledgments
I want especially to thank my editor at Grove Press, Fred Jordan, for his many helpful suggestions, and Joy Johannessen of Grove for her eagle-eyed, expert editing. Her emendations and suggestions have invariably improved both the text and the many references. Errors and omissions are mine alone.
“Churchill: The Man,” from Churchill Revised, edited by A. J. P. Taylor, Robert Rhodes James, J. H. Plumb, Basil Liddell Hart, and Anthony Storr (New York: Dial Press, 1969). © 1969 by Doubleday, a division of Bantam, Doubleday, Dell Publishing Group, Inc. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.
“Kafka’s Sense of Identity,” first published in Paths and Labyrinths, edited by J. P. Stern and J. J. Whyte (London: Institute of Germanic Studies, University of London, 1985).
“Isaac Newton,” first published in the British Medical Journal 291 (December 21–28, 1985): 1779–84. Reprinted by permission of the British Medical Journal.
“Psychoanalysis and Creativity,” first published in Psychoanalysis and the Humanities, edited by Peregrine Horden (London: Duckworth, 1985).
“Intimations of Mystery,” first published in William Golding: The Man and His Books, edited by John Carey (London: Faber and Faber, 1986).
“Jung’s Conception of Personality,” first published in Persons and Personality, edited by Arthur Peacocke and Grant Gillett (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1987).
“Why Psychoanalysis Is Not a Science,” first published in Mindwaves, edited by Colin Blakemore (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1987). Reprinted by permission of the publisher.
“The Psychology of Symbols,” first published in Symbols in Life and Art, edited by James Leith (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1987). Reprinted by permission of the publisher.
“The Sanity of True Genius,” first published in The Virginia Quarterly Review 61, no. 1 (Winter 1985). Reprinted by permission of The Virginia Quarterly Review.
“Psychiatric Responsibility in the Open Society,” first published in The Open Society in Theory and Practice, edited by Dante Germino and Klaus von Beyme (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1974), pp. 276–90. © 1974 by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Dordrecht, Holland. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.
The other papers in this collection have not previously been published, although earlier versions of “Why Human Beings Become Violent” have appeared in various places. Several of these papers have been extensively revised for this collection. I am grateful to the editors and publishers who have given me permission to reprint those papers of which I did not retain the copyright.
About the Author
ANTHONY STORR was a doctor, psychiatrist and analyst (trained in the school of C.G.) and author of ‘Jung’ (a Fontana Modern Master,1973) amongst many others. He died in 2001.
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