Atwood's journey through the wilderness of behaviorism as a young student, The golden age of personality psychology at Livingston College,

Death of the golden age and its sources/reasons. G Atwood's dream of Walt Disney crushing the head of a young man - Invariant organizing principle or golden thread (atwood and stolorow), unity thema (murray), nuclear scene and script (tomkins) Personology The diagnostic council in personological studies (Fantasies of Flight) - The intensive, in-depth case study Positivism (Comte) as a self-canceling idea and Comte's madness Behaviorism and The Unholy Trinity of Watson, Skinner, and Hull Materialism, determinism, rationalism: the Newtonian-Galilean Weltanschauung, scientism as distinct from science the challenge to morals and ethics presented by a radically deterministic viewpoint and examples of unethical conduct by determinist psychological experimenters such as Watson and Seligman, J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan, the tragedy of Barries early family The meaning of fantasies of flight in relation to early bonds to the mother - C.G. Jungs early childhood history and the splitting of his selfhood into No. 1 and No. 2 The psychology of knowledge and the sociology of knowledge(Faces in a Cloud) Decentering in the genesis of knowledge Relation between the subjectivity and the validity of a theory of personality = Pure phenomenology, methodological objectivism, and behaviorism (Faces in a Cloud)Freuds feelings toward his mother, and their impact on his theory Freuds tendency to form idealizing relationships The purpose of psychobiographical analysis of personality theories Freuds speculative theory of the girls psychosexual development Subjective anthropomorphism (Hull) and mechanomorphism (Maslow)

Watsons turn to atheism Marshall Applewhite and Larry Walters (the lawnchair/balloon man): similarities and differences (Fantasies of Flight) Perry Smith and the dream of the great parrot (Fantasies of Flight) Skinners dark year of depression and its relation to his behaviorism understood as a defense against depression Watsons getting fired from Johns Hopkins for the sin of adultery Freuds study of Leonardo and its problems (Fantasies of Flight) Creelans view of the Little Albert experiment and what it symbolized, the 'Little Albert' experiment as reenacted trauma from Watson's religious upbringing Dream interpretation - Latent dream thoughts vs manifest dream contents - sources of dreams wish fulfillment theory of dreams - dream work and the mechanisms of condensation and displacement = censorship The symbolic significance of Seligman's learned helplessness experiments and the trauma experience underlying Zimbardo's prison experiment. . Heidegger's list of the qualities of Dasein: including the fact that Dasein is a being for which Being is an issue (relating to "ontological shock"), the tendency to think of ourselves as things or objects, being-in-the-world, being-toward-death, being-with, thrownness, historicity, Dasein as "thrown projection, authenticity and the idea of 'falling' into inauthenticity, the power of an encounter with the the possibility of death to restore Dasein to authenticity, behaviorism as relating to Dasein tendency toward self-objectification William Blake's prophetic warning about the dangers of Newtonian thinking in reducing human beings to deterministic mechanisms. Dilthey's ideas about the human sciences versus the natural sciences