Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1918 — Shame Makes One Forget. [ARTICLE]

Shame Makes One Forget.

Forgetting is a strange phenomenon. According to the modern psychologists, we are most apt to.forget those things that we do not want to remember —especially those of which we are ashamed. In an address on criminals who are on foe border line of Insanity, delivered before the Clinical Society of St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, Washington, Dr. Leon Emile Duval told of many mentally unbalanced men who in their normal state could not remember disgraceful deeds they had done, and said this was to be explained on the basis that “it is the thing of which we are ashamed and which conflicts with the customs of society which is soonest relegated to the realm of the unconscious.”