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PDF: Interpersonal Diagnosis of Personality: a Functional Theory and Methodology for Personality Evaluation Leary, Timothy: 1957. Unlike most other mammals, the human being continually faces and deals with conflictful situations in which anxiety threatens in at least two directions.The interpersonal world he has created pushes him toward one set (and often an imbalanced set) of…
Fugitive Thoughts: Timothy Leary’s Reading of Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow …Soon after, he “heard the clank of the padlock and the rasp of the metal slot being opened. He passively accepted a book which was pushed through the slot.” It was the recently released novel Gravity’s Rainbow. Leary, in solitary confinement, read it for 12 hours…
Fugitive Thoughts: Timothy Leary’s Reading of Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow Getting back to this period in Leary’s life: he gets caught in Kabul and ends up back in the California Archipelago. He once counted how many different prisons he’d been in: 36. It was in solitary confinement in Sandstone, Minnesota that Leary asked a trustee for…