#robert lindner

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宇宙を駆ける男－精神分析医のドキュメント R. リンドナー、川口正吉・訳 金沢文庫 表紙画＝S. 堀内

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ジャズの力

　わたしが、モダン・ジャズを好きなのは、それが反逆的で、「スローガンのない煽動のようで、綱領なき革命」のようであるからです。

（この「スローガンのない煽動、綱領なき革命」というのは、ロバート・リンドナーという医者が、精神病者につけた定義でありますが、いみじくも、ジャズそのものをいいあてているようにおもわれます）

　あの、頭を打つような叙情と、目の暗闇をするどく切り裂くようなトランペットや、サキソフォーンの音には、わたしたちが、文明によって抑制されている生の感情や暴力を解放する思いがけないほどの力が潜んでいます。

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The psychoanalyist Robert Lindner provided another admonitory example, this time factual rather than fictional, of how imaginary worlds can delude while delighting, effacing the borders set by the ironic imagination. One of his patients, a brilliant scientist, had created a detailed futuristic universe inspired by the patient's extensive reading of science fiction. He not only documented this universe in great detail but also believed it to be real; without any irony, he spent many waking hours "visiting" it in his imagination to the detriment of his work and personal life. Lindner's therapeutic strategy was to enter into his patient's fantasy in order to wean him from it. He steeped himself in the world's details, initially from an ironic perspective. But he unexpectedly found himself nearly as captivated by the imaginary world as its creator: "My condition throughout was...that of enchantment developing toward obsession." The wish fulfillments provided by this imaginary realm proved too entrancing for Lindner, its wonderfully vast scope permitting him to be "geologist, explorer, astronomer, historian, physicist, adventurer" instead of the sedentary, middle-aged analyst he had become. This beguiling form of enchantment overtook him at a vulnerable period in his life, when he was most susceptible to its blandishments. Soon he was involved in an "intense pursuit of error and inconsistency in the 'records'...with the obsessive aim of 'setting them straight,' of 'getting the facts.'" Lindner awoke from his fixation through the intervention of his patient, who had grown uneasy about Lindner's peculiar interest in his world and drew his attention to it: the physician had to heal himself. Lindner's account of "The Jet-Propelled Couch" is a classic example of how the ironic imagination can lose its prophylactic distance from the immersion it makes possible.

Michael Saler, As If: Modern Enchantment and the Literary Prehistory of Virtual Reality (2012)

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The Short Version / Reviews

A Pearl of a Story

All of the good books aren’t necessarily the new books.  Grubbing through the Olde Book Store, an enterprising reader can discover many treasures.   The Fifty Minute Hour by Robert Lindner is such a book.

I must have first purchased it used.  (Okay, partly perhaps because of the lurid cover.)  Then, I uncovered it again while unpacking from a recent move.  It looked…

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What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Robert Lindner

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Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.

Robert Lindner

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Conformity, humility, acceptance... with these coins we are to pay our fares to paradise.

Robert Lindner

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MUST YOU CONFORM?

Robert Linder

"Because of the instinct of rebellion man has never been content with the limits of his mind: it has led him to inquire its secrets of the universe, to gather and learn and manipulate the fabulous inventory of the cosmos, to seek the very mysteries of creation."

Conformity and the instinct of rebellion – Norman Mailer channels his departed friend, the pioneering psychologist Robert Lindner: