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If you try to analyze the experience, you may talk about your skin crawling, or this or that; at any rate, you know that it was very curious. I think any of you who recall an awe-inspiring incident will realize it could easily have been terribly unpleasant. True, many of you, perhaps, have never experienced awe to that extent; awe is certainly the mildest of the uncanny emotions. But if there were a great deal more of such emotion, you would be very far from a going concern as long as you had it.

To the Houghton Mifflin Company for Ruth Benedict’s Patterns of Culture (1934). , for Kurt Lewin’s A Dynamic Theory of Personality (1935). To Macmillan & Company, Ltd. (London), for Charles Spearman’s The Nature of ‘Intelligence’ and the Principles of Cognition (1923). To The Macmillan Company (New York) for Bronislaw Malinowski’s “Culture” and T. V. Smith’s “Mead, George Herbert” (in the Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences). To the University of Illinois Press for Harry Stack Sullivan’s “Tensions Interpersonal and International” (in Tensions That Cause Wars, edited by Hadley Cantril; 1950).

I am inclined to say, when I don’t feel that too many people are hanging on my words, that some of the cures have probably just been the result of mutual exhaustion. And why has this been so? Well, the present indication is very strongly in the direction of the wrong thing having been tackled. There was nothing particularly wrong with that which was allegedly to be cured. It was a pretty remarkable manifestation of human dexterity in living. Then what was the trouble? Was it susceptibility, vulnerability to anxiety which called out this alleged symptom?

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