"Little magazines" are, for the most part, the mayflies of the literary world. |
A psychologist objects to what he calls "herd thinking," but what a majority of people think is always what they've heard |
as evidence that the remembered event actually occurred. |
Ephemerality is the little magazine's generic fate; by promptly dying it gives proof that it remained loyal to its first program. |
Perhaps [an act of molestation] did occur in some cases, |
Psychoanalysis will fade away just as mesmerism and phrenology did, and for the same reason - its exploded pretensions will deprive it of recruits |
Psychoanalysis will fade away just as mesmerism and phrenology did, and for the same reason - its exploded pretensions will deprive it of recruits |