A Victorian Educational Pioneer’s Evangelicalism, Leadership, and Love “Noisy Rabble of Our Fears,” 1917–1934
A Victorian Educational Pioneer’s Evangelicalism, Leadership, and Love : “Noisy Rabble of Our...
Phipps, Pauline A.
2022-11-16 00:00:00
[The elderly Maynard floundered under innovative theories of the psyche that infiltrated Britain in the mid-1920s. She was particularly troubled by the new idea that a sexually repressed childhood like hers could, in later life, lead the individual to seek abnormal outlets for their excessively strong sexual excitations. This chapter outlines Maynard’s painful reconsideration of what she now called her misuse of love when her former lover, the Irish Marion Wakefield, became a pioneer student of psychology and, later, psychoanalysis. Virtually nothing is written on late-Victorian women who not only pioneered in studies on the psyche, but lived through vast changes in the field. Maynard left behind only brief thoughts on her Girton studies and conversations about psychology and psychoanalysis with Wakefield in 1917, 1923, and 1934. Nonetheless, her memoirs convey two late-Victorian women’s astonishing reflections on their intimate past due to their unique expertise in psychology.]
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A Victorian Educational Pioneer’s Evangelicalism, Leadership, and Love “Noisy Rabble of Our Fears,” 1917–1934
[The elderly Maynard floundered under innovative theories of the psyche that infiltrated Britain in the mid-1920s. She was particularly troubled by the new idea that a sexually repressed childhood like hers could, in later life, lead the individual to seek abnormal outlets for their excessively strong sexual excitations. This chapter outlines Maynard’s painful reconsideration of what she now called her misuse of love when her former lover, the Irish Marion Wakefield, became a pioneer student of psychology and, later, psychoanalysis. Virtually nothing is written on late-Victorian women who not only pioneered in studies on the psyche, but lived through vast changes in the field. Maynard left behind only brief thoughts on her Girton studies and conversations about psychology and psychoanalysis with Wakefield in 1917, 1923, and 1934. Nonetheless, her memoirs convey two late-Victorian women’s astonishing reflections on their intimate past due to their unique expertise in psychology.]
Published: Nov 16, 2022
Keywords: Singularization of History; Psychology; Psychoanalysis; Ownership; Textual Environment
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