That’s a nice catch Ken, and it leads me to think that we are barking up the wrong tree. You’re not going to find the earliest connections of the iceberg to Freud in psychology textbooks. You’re going to find them in psychoanalysis textbooks.
So, I just had a look through five key psychology textbooks to see how they handled the nature of the Freudian unconscious. Boring’s History of Experimental Psychology (1st ed., 1929) make only scattered, passing references to Freud. No description of the unconscious. Pillsbury’s History of Psychology (1929) has about 9 pp. on Freud. It covers the unconscious, but no iceberg metaphor. He says flat-out that Freud and Janet were “rivals,” and he says that Freud’s theory of the unconscious was lifted directly from Schopenhauer, minus the emphasis on Will. Heidbredder’s Seven Psychologies (1933) has a chapter on psychoanalysis. I skimmed the first 20 pp. of it, but found no mention of the iceberg metaphor, even where you would expect to be — in this description of the unconscious: "Beneath the conscious self is the vast and powerful unconscious, the source of the great concealed forces that constitute the real driving power behind human actions” (p. 387). Woodworth’s Contemporary Schools (rev. ed 1948 — if anyone has the original 1931 ed., it would be interest to see) also has a chapter on psychoanalysis. Again, I could only skim the first 20 pp. I saw no reference to the iceberg. The section on the unconscious, specifically, is less than page. He makes reference to two earlier theorists of unconscious motivation, thought: the English physiologist William Carpenter (Principles of Mental Physiology, 4th ed., 1876) and "the elder Oliver Wendell Holmes,” by which I presume he means the astronomy and math prof at Harvard, father of the famed Supreme Court justice. Boring’s 2nd ed. (1950) has about 5 pp. on Freud, but it is much more a biography and account of politics within the Psychoanalytic Society than a description of the theory. However, Calvin Hall’s Primer of Freudian Psychology (1954) mentions the iceberg on p. 54. Of course, that is still one year after the first volume of the Jones biography comes out. Can we find other psychoanalytic textbooks prior to 1953? Chris ….. Christopher D Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada [email protected] http://www.yorku.ca/christo ………………………………... On Feb 10, 2015, at 2:23 PM, Ken Steele <[email protected]> wrote: > > Beatrice Hinkle (an early psychoanalyst -- see > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrice_M._Hinkle) wrote the introduction to > Jung's (1916) "Psychology of the Unconscious." > > She connects GS Hall with the iceberg metaphor. > > https://archive.org/stream/psychologyuncon00junggoog#page/n42/mode/2up/search/iceberg > > There is no other mention of Hall or the metaphor in the book. > > Ken > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Kenneth M. Steele, Ph. D. [email protected] > Professor > Department of Psychology http://www.psych.appstate.edu > Appalachian State University > Boone, NC 28608 > USA > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > --- > You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. > To unsubscribe click here: > http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=430248.781165b5ef80a3cd2b14721caf62bd92&n=T&l=tips&o=41993 > or send a blank email to > leave-41993-430248.781165b5ef80a3cd2b14721caf62b...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=41994 or send a blank email to leave-41994-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
