Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-06-05 | Page 2 | Lincoln Was of Dr. Jekyll-Mr. Hyde Nature, Psychologist Declares

I Lincoln Was of Dr Jekyll Mr Hyde Nature Psychologist Declares Declare TORONTO June Junc 5 Associated Press Abraham Abra Abraham m Lincoln was a ana- ana as a schizoid mahlo maiJo personality personal personal- ity a a Dr Jekyll and Mr ir Hyde who had h. his Ws baser ha tare under rigid control con con- at tro-at at the American Psychiatric association association as as- meeting today The analysis was read by Dr A A. A. A I Brill a a. psychoanalyst of New York City When an abstract of Dr Brills Brill's speech appeared In the program of the association last month It brought a a. bitter protest from Dr Edward E E. Hicks prominent Brooklyn psychiatrist rist who described the allusions to Lincoln as insulting Dr Hicks en en- en I en-I th the a formal protest against speech with officers of the tion I Schizoid Is a n. word of Greek Oon meaning to split spilt and the I ex ex- ex applied to Lincoln docs does no not mean Insanity Dr Brill found th the trace of of dual personality In a a. re reputed reputed re- re tendency t to tell off-color off dotes which bubbled up as part o of Lincoln's humor Tho rho split personality per per- source was traced to his con con- Inheritances from his mother and father lather two natures nature that never became fused in him Dr Brill ranked Lincoln as a a. wit wl with Mark Twain Thain Uncle Remus and other great American humorists He confined his study t to the emotional side of or the Emancipator r. r What Is very peculiar about Lin Ln- I coins coIn's st stories rIes and Jokes said Dr Brill his own and those h he ho a appropriated pro pro- from others is the fact that tha many If not most are of or an aggressive sive sl or nature treating o of pain suffering and death and that tha thata a great many of them were vere so f frankly sexual as to be classed as obscene Most of his biographers speak of the latter but are at a loss to explain why Lincoln resorted t to this form lorm of or wit vit Thus Thu Bev remarked that he had faults extremely human such as his love of a certain kind of anecdote a taste which he never nc overcame and ana and the expression of which as 8 will ap appear appear ap- ap pear w was s so ro marked a a. feature of liEs his manhood and so 0 shocking to the eminent emi em- nent int 1 t men inca among ng whim he lie did his liLs historic work Dr Brill Bill named as other authorities author author- ties des for the anecdotes Carl Sanburg quoting Henry and Dr Holland's Hollands Hollands Holland's Hollands Holland's Hol Hol- lands land's Abraham Lincoln Looking at this behavior with present day eyes Dr Brill said I 1 cannot be shocked by any of Lincoln's stories that I heard or read To be sure he called a n. spade a a. spade and having been brought brough in the backwoods backwoods backwoods back back- woods of pioneer da da days he did cUd not possess posses the Inhibiting Influences of ofa ofa a a. New England environment Lincoln had to cope with enormous enormous enormous enor enor- trials and vicissitudes poor heredity from his fathers father's side humble humble humble hum hum- ble birth abject poverty struggle sti for education and an unsatisfied love lovelife life Ife all of Which he summed up inthe In En the he story of or the boy who was asked whether he liked ginger bread II 4 Yes he said I like Ilke than anything else but I get less leS of It But despite these handicaps he attained the highest ambition of any American Nevertheless throughout his ils life Ute he was unable to disburden himself of his liEs depressive moods Dr Brill says sars there are man many authorities for the existence of these moods described variously as the blues melancholy abstraction and mental depression