The reader should also remember that such fearsome
words as (1) "sex," (2) "incest," (3) "homosexualism,"
(4) "sadism," etc., include in psychoanalysis (1) love, (2)
great affection between mother and son, father and daughter,
brother and sister, (3) intense friendship, (4) cruelty, etc.,
respectively.
There are in English but few articles applying psychoanalytic
methods to writers and thinkers. Some of them are:
Alfred Kuttner's "The Artist" in Seven Arts, Feb., 1917;
Wilfrid Lay's "'John Barleycorn' Under Psychoanalysis,"
"H. G. Wells and His Mental Hinterland" and "The Marriage
Ideas of H. G. Wells" in The Bookman (N. Y.), March,
July and August, 1917, respectively; A. R. Chandler's "Tragic
Effects in Sophocles" in "The Monist" (1913); W. J. Karpas's
"Socrates in the Light of Modern Psychology" in The Journal
of Abnormal Psychology, vol. 10, p. 185; and Phyllis Blanchard's
"Psychoanalytic Study of Comte" in the American
Journal of Psychology, April, 1918.
Two indispensable articles are the summaries by Rudolph
Acher and by Lucille Dooley of "Psychoanalytic Studies of
Geniuses," published in German. The reader should study
these articles in the American Journal of Psychology for July,
1911, and July, 1916, respectively.
He honoured Mrs. Osgood in the same way by republishing
another poem from the Southern Literary Messenger of September,
1835, written for some Eliza and opening "Eliza, let
thy generous heart." This poem in the poetical works of Poe
bears the title, "Lines Written in an Album." It originally
was written, Woodberry surmises, to his employer's daughter,
Eliza White, though Whitty believes it was addressed to his
future wife, Virginia Eliza Clemm. Yet it is very likely the
poem was written to one of his early sweethearts, Elizabeth
Herring.