TR Gaddis tears into Dale Carnegie Pt 2 ch 1
Jed Kelestron
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Fri Jun 3 10:53:50 CDT 2011
"Like the others, Mr. Pivner spent little time at ground level. He was
usually moving rapidly beneath it, or taking spurious ease some ells
above. Up he rose in the elevator, out into the passage, and he opened
his door with one of a number of keys he carried, a satisfaction no
one can know who does not keep a secret and private self locked away
from eight million others. He stood for a moment in his open doorway,
as he always did, lighting the rooms with the button at his hand and
looking through the rooms in that instant of anxiety which waited
always to be expanded into full terror at finding the place burgled,
finding under the hand of the careless burglar the intimate slaughter
of his secret self. But everything was in order, silently waiting to
affirm him, holding there the sense of the half-known waiting for
eventual discovery in a final recognition of himself."
(284.35-285.1-4)
Gaddis's reading of Jung's Integration of the Personality saturates
this Pivner section. The split between the above and below, conscious
and unconscious, the divided self, and the need to recognize the
'other' within.
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