“The author’s lucid and dispassionate works on the past history of our navy had shown that he was specially qualified to record its greatest undertaking, and his new book is all that we had expected it to be as a narrative, even if some of his occasional remarks and deductions may provoke dissent.”
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“Sir Julian S. Corbett reveals himself a student of detail, a scholarly narrator, and a man who is not impatient of research. These virtues, together with an ability to retain throughout a comprehensive view of the worldwide field of operations and the political or military necessity governing many moves that were unavailing, give this history an uncommon value.”
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“In our judgment Sir Julian has accomplished his extremely difficult task with very great skill. The difficulty of the task is, indeed, in large measure concealed by the skill of its accomplishment. No naval historian has ever had to paint on so large a canvas. None has ever had such intricate and far-reaching operations to describe.”
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CORIAT, ISADORE HENRY.[[2]] Repressed emotions. *$2 Brentano’s 130
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“Defining emotional repression as ‘the defense of conscious thinking from mental processes which are painful’ the author goes on to explain the nature of repression, its relation to the unconscious, the part it plays in mental disorders and the manner in which it may be treated through psychoanalysis. He gives a description of the unconscious, emphasizing its importance in the light of the new psychology, and states that it ‘originated not only in the childhood of man but in the childhood of the world,’ and that in it ‘is condensed and capitulated the cultural history of mankind.’ The process of psychoanalysis is outlined, and its value, not only in the treatment of neuroses, but also for the insight it furnishes into certain character defects, is pointed out. The author lays special stress on the fact that psychoanalysis is largely educational since it serves to further the development of character.”—Survey