Modern Mind

754–5
Prohibition (USA), 215
propaganda: political, 328
Protestantism, 46–7, 602
protons, 257, 261–3, 509;
see also
particle physics
psychedelic revolution, 597
psychiatry: misused in Russia, 540–1;
see also
anti-depressants, tranquilisers; radical pyschiatry; schizophrenia
psychoanalysis: and association tests, 139; connection with Marxism, 225, 437, 752; criticisms and reevaluations of, 493–5, 498, 664–6, 758–60, 766–7; and direct analysis, 663–4; effect of Great War on, 150–2; effect on literary works, 135–7, 196, 202, 758; Freud-Jung division in, 135, 139–42, 274; international spread of, 138; interpretation of civilisation and society, 273–5; Nazi view of, 306–7; and neuroses, 275–6; and personal emancipation, 633; resurgence in France, 625–8, 752; in Strauss’s operas, 55; Trilling supports, 452; in USA, 505–6; in Vienna, 13–15
psychology: inferior to fiction as teacher, 755; and phenomenology, 31–2;
see also
counter-culture; therapy-religions; schizophrenia
pulsars, 572–3
punctuated equilibrium, 696
Puritanism, 47
quantum chromodynamics (QCD), 743
quantum physics, 23, 37, 61, 93–5, 257–60, 755; and string theory, 744–5
quantum electro-dynamics (QED), 508
quarks, 509, 569, 573, 667, 743
quasars, 572–3
R & B music
see
rhythm and blues
race theory: in Africa, 526–7; and assumption of white superiority, 40–4, 277; and culture levels, 451; and ‘degeneration’, 38, 43; and evolution, 578; in Germany, 240–3, 294–6, 310–12, 315, 395; growth of, 71; and human migration, 752; immigration control in Britain, 536; and intelligence, 206; and teaching of Third World cultures, 730–1; and US ethnic minorities and immigrants, 108–12, 116–18, 124, 148–50, 198, 206, 217, 282–4, 390–1, 522–3, 526, 528, 654–5; Weininger’s, 33;
see also
anti-Semitism; US minorities, racial
radar, 365–6
radiation, cosmic, 569–72
radical psychiatry, 502
radio, 210–11, 218–20
radioactivity, 91, 134, 262–3, 393
radiocarbon dating, 487, 563, 565
rebirthing, 598
recessive traits (genetics), 19
red giants, 573
redshift, 265–6
refugees: from Nazi Germany, 181, 302–9, 350–7, 505
reinforced concrete, 82
relativity: and Eddington’s astronomical experiments, 183–5; general theory of, 133, 181, 264; Mach and, 37; special theory of, 61, 93–6, 132; and string theory, 744
relict radiation, 570
religion: and alternative life-styles, 598–602; and challenge of science, 289–91, 765; and church-going, 603–4; and community, 314; and magical practices, 602–3; non-Western, 761–3;
see also
Christianity; Jews; and individual theologians in Index of Names, People and Places
REM sleep, 494
reportage, 285
repression, 13
restriction enzymes, 614–15
rhythm and blues (R & B) music, 457, 477
rocket propulsion, 365, 482–3, 736;
see also
space travel
rock‘n’roll music, 457–8
sacrifice (religious), 249
Salvarsen (‘preparation 606’), 106, 113, 367
satellites (orbital), 481–4;
Echo,
569
schizophrenia, 502–3, 541
science: and cross-over culture, 769; as ‘culture’, 467–70; intuition and tradition in, 471–2; link to science, 754–5;
see also
individual sciences and fields of study scientism, 66
seafloor spreading, 553
Secession, 59, 64; Viennese, 35
self-organisation, 746
self-religions, 598–9
semicircular canals (inner ear), 36
semiconductors, 477
semiology, 635–6
semiotics (semiosis), 347
serial music (serialism), 230, 414, 513, 624
sex: education, 214; in literature, 429–30; origins of, 685, 695; religious attitudes to, 604; theories and studies of, 33–4, 278–80, 423–7, 529;
see also
pornography
sharashki
(Soviet camps), 316, 482, 542
shell shock, 151
Silva Mind Control, 598
singularity
see
‘Big Bang’ theory
‘Situs’, 593
skyscrapers, 80–2, 89, 223
smoking (tobacco), 582, 658, 661
Social Darwinism
see
Darwinism, Social
social welfare
see
welfare state
socialism, 163, 287–8, 292–3, 378, 518, 530
socialist realism, 321–3
sociology: decline of, 763–4, 766–7; and German emigrants, 305–6; in USA, 212–15, 281–2, 432–49;
see also,
Herbert Spencer; C. Wright Mills; Irving Louis Horowitz in Index of People, Names and Places
solidarity (philosophy), 670–1
Sonderbund (Cologne, 1912), 127–8
space travel, 481–4, 566–9, 573, 667
spectroscopy, 134, 479
speech
see
language
spiral nebulae, 265–6
Sprechgesang
(opera), 58
Sputniks
, 481–2, 484, 566, 736
stagflation, 648
Stalinism: and French intellectuals, 412–13;