On 9 Aug 2008 at 19:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, referring to me:

> Where is he? 

That's easy. Right here. I turned TIPS off when I went on vacation early 
this summer and resolved not to turn it back on until I dealt with the 
mountain of e-mail that accumulated while I was away. But I can't resist 
an iceberg-related post (delivered to me by Annette using an extra-TIPS 
route).  So I'm back. 

On the recent flurry of iceberg messages:

Chiris Green's sighting of the iceberg in Titchener's 1912 AJP article 
has been made previously, by Mike P. according to my notes. However, I 
don't see that any of us has actually checked out the reference to G. 
Stanley Hall writing in 1910 in Harper's Magazine (although I expect it 
to be there as Titchener said). If anyone does have it, I'd appreciate a 
copy. Otherwise, I'll try interlibrary loan. 

I disagree with Chris that "there can be little doubt that Hall was 
referring, at least in part, to Freud". The fact Chris cites that a year 
earlier (1909) Hall had hosted Freud's Clark University lectures is 
insufficient evidence to tie the two together, worthy speculation though 
it may be. As far as I've been able to discover, Hall himself never 
explicitly invoked the iceberg in relation to Freud or psychoanalysis.  
The earliest appearance of the iceberg I have in relation to 
psychoanalysis occurs in a 1916 book by White, and credits Hall for the 
image. 

The 1910 use by Hall in a popular magazine is interesting, but, as 
Annette recalled, I was able to find an earlier (1898) Hall mention of 
the iceberg, this time in an academic publication, AJP. There is little 
doubt that Hall was an important, probably the most important popularizer 
of the iceberg image of the unconscious. He was generally recognized as 
its originator up until the famous 1939 NY Times obituary of Freud, which 
irreversibly (and spuriously) gave the credit instead to Freud. This 1898 
source predates the anonymous 1899 report in a Quaker newsletter that 
professor Goddard used the image in a talk. As Mike P. tells us, Goddard 
did his dissertation with Hall, so he was undoubtedly familiar with its 
use in Hall's 1898 AJP publication. 

I was able to push the boundary back another 10 years, discovering that 
an anonymous author presented an unambiguous iceberg metaphor  for the 
unconscious  in another Quaker magazine in 1889. I believe this is 
currently the earliest date we have for the metaphor.  Note that as this 
post will be readily available on the web, I am not providing additional 
details of the source, although I've told the Society of Iceberg Hunters. 
I think we should be cautious in prematurely blabbing what we have, as it 
will undermine the significance and novelty of our hoped-for publication 
(loose lips sink publications?).  

As for that publication, yes we should (yes we can is another matter). 
I'm sure we would all be grateful to anyone bold enough to take it on, as 
it would be a shame to allow all this detective work to remain a flower 
born to bloom unseen. I might consider having a run at it myself, but a 
summer (even an excessively wet one) is a terrible thing to waste, 
especially up here in the frozen North. Perhaps when the nights get long. 

Last point: It seems to me that a potential iceberg paper needs one 
important additional piece of information, namely the extent to which the 
iceberg image and its spurious attribution to Freud continues to be 
promulgated in the literature.  I have a number of instances of its use 
in publications from people who should know better,  but what we really 
need is a survey of current textbooks. Hence, a Call to Action. 

May I ask that people check their most recent editions of textbooks of 
introductory, personality, and child development? If Freud and the 
unconscious are discussed, is the iceberg mentioned? Is Freud explicitly 
given credit? And is there an illustration?

If people will scan and send me, either by attachment or by snail mail, 
relevant pages from their recent textbooks (say 2005-2008) documenting 
either the presence or absence of the iceberg in relation to Freud's 
concept of the unconscious, that would be helpful. Just remember to label 
them (author, date, edition, page) so I know where they came from. I'll 
report on the progress of the survey to keep down duplicates. How about 
it, TIPsters? Can you help?

Stephen

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Stephen L. Black, Ph.D.          
Professor of Psychology, Emeritus   
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