THE PSYCHOLOGIST.
He takes the saints to pieces And labels all the parts, He tabulates the secrets Of loyal, loving hearts. He probes their selfless passion, And shows exactly why The martyr goes ouf, singing To suffer and to die. The beatific vision That brings them to their knees, He smilingly reduces , To infant phantasies, The Freudian unconscious * Quite easily explains The splendour of their sorrows, . The pageant of their pains, The manifold temptations, Wherewith the flesh can vex The saintly souls are samples Of Oedipus complex. The subtle sex perversion His eagle glance can tell, That makes their joyous heaven The horror of their hell. His reasoning is perfect, His proofs as plain as paint, He has but one small weakness— He cannot make a saint. —G. A. Studdert-Kennedy.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19418, 28 August 1926, Page 7 (Supplement)
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