Notes

  1. . I plan to expand the following essay into a book‐length study tentatively entitled Joy, Care, and Control: The Cultures of Contemporary Psychology.
  2. . William James, The Will lo Believe (New York: Dover Publications, 1956), p. 211.
  3. . Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1958), pp. 98–127.
  4. . James, Will to Believe, p. 9. See also the excellent article by Frank Lentricchia on the aesthetic and romantic dimensions of James, “William James” Romanticism,” Salmagundi(Winter 1974), pp. 81–108.
  5. . John Wild, The Radical Empiricism of William James (New York: Doubleday & Co., 1970); Bruce Wilshire, William James and Phenomenology (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1968); Hans Linschoten, On the Way towards a Phenomenological Psychology: The Psychology of William James (Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1968).
  6. . James, Will to Believe, p. 218.
  7. . Ibid., p. 221.
  8. . Ibid., p. 226.
  9. . Ibid., p. 227.
  10. . Heinz Hartmann, Ego Psychology and the Problem of Adaptation (New York: International Universities Press, 1958), p. 46.
  11. . B. F. Skinner, Beyond Freedom and Dignity (New York: Bantam Books, 1971), p. 136.
  12. . Sigmund Freud, New Introductory Lectures (New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1933), p. 136.
  13. . William James, The Principles of Psychology (New York: Dover Publications, 1950), 2:390.
  14. . Ibid., 1:141–42.
  15. . Ibid., p. 140.
  16. . Ralph Berton Perry, The Thought and Character of William James (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1935), 2:323.
  17. . James, Principles, 2:560.
  18. . Ibid., p. 522.
  19. . William James, Psychology: The Briefer Course (New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1961), p. 306.
  20. . Robert White, Ego Reality in Psychoanalytic Theory (New York: International Universities Press, 1963).
  21. . James, Psychology, p. 311.
  22. . William James, Varieties of Religious Experience (New York: Bantam Books, 1950), p. 40.
  23. . Wild, p. 296.
  24. . James, Varieties, p. 101. See also “Gospel of Relaxation,” in Talks to Teachers on Psychology (New York: Dover Publications, 1962), pp. 99–112.
  25. . James, Varieties, p. 139.
  26. . Ibid., p. 143.
  27. . Ibid., p. 207.
  28. . Ibid., p. 235.
  29. . Ibid., p. 288.
  30. . Ibid.
  31. . Ibid., p. 276.
  32. . Ibid.
  33. . Ibid., p. 289.
  34. . William James, Essays in Radical Empiricism and A Pluralistic Universe (New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1971), p. 139.
  35. . James, Pluralistic Universe, p. 269.
  36. . William James, The Meaning of Truth (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1970), p. 226.
  37. . Ibid., p. 227.
  38. . Ibid., p. 228.
  39. . Ibid., p. 229.