While waiting, more on the Grand Unified Backhoeing of TRP

[Mark Kohut]

My attempted cadging of an early copy of IV having failed, I perhaps feel like Oedipa at the auction this weekend, only with envy [you know who you are] and almost-quivering expectation, no anxiety, little uncertainty. 

Meanwhile, miscellaneous stuff learned: it was 1715 in America when the first major textbook wrote of the subject of psychology. This book
set the major climate of understanding of human psychology through the time of Mason & Dixon [end of the century, says the writer.] It was heavily indebted to that hot philosopher, John Locke, and his "Essay on Human Understanding", sweeping (and deepening?) the Continent. 

[Admittedly, this judgment was given before such as Foucault and others 
did all the archaeology of history's climates of opinion if different ages in recent decades.]

Psychology was a branch of Physics, not Philosophy, in this book. "Among the phenomena of natural physics are spirits...unchanging...divided into two classes, angels and rational souls."...Angels!

Then in that book of Hillman/Ventura's, 'We've Had a Hundred Years of Psychotherapy', that TRP called "provocative, dangerous and high-spirited" Hillman writes: "but the psyche, the soul, is still only within and between people...What's left out is a deteriorating world"...