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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tuesday, Auguit 2, 1953 Psychoanalyist Sets Forth Three Types Who Enjoy Defeat and Pain .... ., . :. - anntVior r-,i iV,l oc nnH naffer to be helD-1 haustible stork of rstionaliza- Full-fledeed rjsvhic masoch w nn.ns smith United Pres Science Editor New York (U.R) A medical lifiychoanalysist ' who also is a 0 (footed theoretician in Fruedian psychology has set forth the three principle types of people who "unconsciously look for and llhjoy defeat, humiliation, rejec 'tion, and pain." First is "the injustice-collecting type," said Dr. Edmund Bergler. "This is a person who at all times is potentially or actually nraged because he is the victim of some terrible wrong," Bergler continued. "He will provoke an actual or if necessary, a po i 'lntial enemy until he succeeds in getting his badly needed dose of injustice. Accepts Subslitite "Between doses, he will accept as substitute a diet of imperson al, universal injustice. Since the world is what it is, the injustice collector is in no danger of re maining unsatisfied. This type is characterized by an air of hyper excitment, hyper-touchlness, and hyper-bellicosity."' Around Hollywood By ALINE MOSIY United Preis Correspondent Hollywood (U.R) English actor Michael Wilding admitted today he's "stunned" by the old Hollywood practice the gossip mills whispe ring about his mar riage. As is usual in the film col ony, colum nists have been speculat- Aline Mosby ing w h e t h er the marriage of the suave actor to one of Hollywood's most beau tiful women, Elizabeth Taylor, is on solid ground. Items have filtered from luscious Liz set of "Giant" at Warner Studio that 'all is not well with the Wildings' love nest. But the tall, sophisticated Wil ding insisted "the marriage is tine, thank you, just fine." "If you have good marriage you ignore the gossip columns and just enjoy the marriage, make the most of it," he said in his clipped, fast - talking British way. "We've been married three years now, and they still say if our marriage catchei on Tired of Goasip Wildihg sat in the living room of the couple's hilltop home in Benedict Canyon. The house, of extreme modern design, features wall of stone and another of a long living room with one glass. The actor presided over a gin -and -tonic surrounded by three cats, three dogs, a cook and assorted secretaries. He was sur prisingly informal and friendly so informal, in fact, he prefers (d walk over his coffee table and couch instead of around them. "These fan magazines!" he went on. "I see titles on the covers like, 'Will Liz' Bay Save the Marriage?' or, 'Will Liz Lose Her Looks?' I have to buy the magazines so I can read them and find out. "Actually, I find those gossip stories immensely dull. They write about the same people going to get a divorce, going to get married, or going to stay that way. I am tired of reading about Tony getting outif bed and Jan . et dressing him."" When he and Liz traveled to Europe two years ago, Wilding said. He read that "friends said the Wildings were having a bad time." One picture showed her arriving alone in one city. Ourfriends never said that and I as on the plane with Liz but they cut me out of the pic ture," he laughed. Marriage Comes First "Liz gets upset over these things but I get quite a kick out of it. One columnist said Liz was a bore and couldn't grow up. Nothing could be farther from the truth. It's a bit of a rum, y'know, to say that kind of thing, or to say she's behaving badly on the set pf 'Giant.' She's fine." Wilding also regarded with de tached amusement the cry of "May-December." He is 44, Liz 23. "I'm mentally retarded so we come to the same age," he grin ned. Wilding was signed by MGM after he and the MGM star were wed. Recentlyvafter three pic- they had no good roles for me." "I would like to do some light comedies," he said. Noel Coward so wants me to do a play in London but I don't think it's good for a marriage to be apart. "And my marriage comes first." he said. "Acating comes second." Portland U.R) McNary Dam's math generator was put on the line last week, adding another 10.000 kilowatts of elec tricity to the Northwest power pool, Bonneville Power Admin istration said. " Portland eU.R) Oregon's hop production this year will be the ldwest since 1918, ac cording to3 the U. S. Department of Agriculture crop and live stock reporting service. And then there is "the coldly detached type." "Phenomenologically, he seems to represent the opposite of the injustice callector. He is an icicle personified distant, cold, unmoved, frequently so taciturn that he is classed with the 'he gives me the creeps' variety," Bergler said. "His presence makes other people uncomfortable. His pose is that of a visitor from another planet. He pays no compliments, and is never guilty of making a moderately friendly - laudatory remark. Inwardly, of course, he is the same erupting volcano as his brother under the skin, the clearly visible injustice collect or." Also there Is the "nice" type. Painful Situation "They are interested in your troubles, and eager to be help ful. Under this ingratiating sur face is a hopelessly entangled masochist, suffering for reasons which he cannot understand, which is his construction of the unhappy situation. In general this type accepts his conscious unhappiness with stiocism and resignation. It is hopeless to try to help these people with common-sense advice. Their inex haustible stock of rationaliza tions assures the permanance of their painful situation." These people, who are class ified as "psychic masochists," are different from other people only because they obtain a great er unconscious enjoyment from suffering than most people, Bergler said in the technical pub lication, "Diseasees of the Ner vous Sytem." Full-fledged psyhic masochists "violate the basic tenent of con scious existence self interest." It is so contradictory, he said, that "the average person cir cumvents the difficulty by de nying that such people exist in the first place." But they do exist, and to en able anyone to see that they do, he set forth the three principal types. C. B Cordy Author Of Fruit Articles C. B. Cordy, county horticult ural agent on leave, has written two articles appearing in recent issues of fruit growers' maga zines, o "Radiation Injury on Frosty Nights," written in conjunction with L. W. Ziegler, appeared in the July issue of Western Fruit Grower, and "Does Florida Need New Organe Varieties?" was printed in the June Citrus Mag azine. 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