By Lewis Carroll
Charles L. Dodgson used to be a Mathematical Lecturer at Oxford, higher often called Lewis Carroll. This number of mathematical puzzles used to be compiled in 1893, following years of insomnia. Dodgson claimed to have solved each puzzle, with out pencil and paper, in the course of his sleepness nights. This remarkable feat is tough to realize, even for this kind of genius. The complexity and stable humor of the issues and stories are suggestive of his well-loved "Alice in Wonderland". Dodgson additionally tricks at his pioneering the sector of symbolic common sense. learn more...
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If our national consciousness has thus partially identified dirt with vice, it is not surprising to find that many individuals have unconsciously made the identification in more complete fashion. Their thwarted sex-expression, the desires they so strongly want to gratify and yet fear to surrender to, become symbolized in the unconscious as dirt. There are women who are unhappy away from the wash-stand; their hands are scrubbed raw with the hottest water and the strongest soaps; men who avoid the handclasp, who will touch a door-knob or a telephone only through a glove or a handkerchief.
He is constantly haunted by visions in which he sees himself stabbing his friend, or opening his veins, or mutilating his organs: by any of these acts his purpose is accomplished–the destruction of life itself or the emasculation of the life-giving principal. XI. AICHMOPHOBIA The Fear of Sharp and Pointed Objects XII. MECHANOPHOBIA The Fear of Machinery The great machines we have invented and constructed to do our work for us are responsible for many other problems than our recurrent unemployment and what the economists are pleased to call a period of depression.
We are not dealing here with any simple fear–the disinclination to be struck by lightning which is the normal feeling of normal persons. It is very possible that in the warped mind of the astrophobiac, as he hides in closets and under beds, the lightnings of the storm are the bolts of an avenging God, striking surely for the one who has transgressed His decrees. II. ASTROPHOBIA The Fear of Storms III. ZOOPHOBIA The Fear of Animals A natural aversion in healthy people for mice or dogs need be no indication of zoophobia.