FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Tuesday, Auguit 2, 1953
Psychoanalyist Sets Forth Three Types Who Enjoy Defeat and Pain
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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. Cordy leit his Jackson county
post last fall on a sabbatical
leave to the University of Flor
ida. Friends report he made an
excellent record there and is
now visiting his father in Napa,
Calif.
He is schedujed to return hero
September 1. Don BerryTias as
sumed Cordy's horticultural dut
ies in his absence. Berry will,
remain as assistant county agent
for horticulture following Cor
dy's return.
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