HARPER, Vincent

HARPER, Vincent
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   US writer whose sf novel, The Mortgage on the Brain, Being the Confessions of the late Ethelbert Craft, MD (1905), describes an electric-shock treatment which alters personality beneficially and undermines many then-conventional views of the nature of the mind. The story is a melodramatic hotchpotch, but is of interest in its reference to the ego, which is described (as in the title) as holding no more than a mortgage on its habitat: this idea has found sophisticated support in late-20th-century studies of the workings of the mind.
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   See also: PSYCHOLOGY.

Science Fiction and Fantasy Encyclopedia. . 2011.

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