220 Brief, Signed (1 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Pp. 207-220. Original wrappers. Horizontal crease. Ink name stamp of Dr. U. J. Bijlsma on front wrapper. Ink notation "1SU-23" on front wrapper. First Edition. INSCRIBED BY I. PAVLOV: "Vom Verfasser" (see photo). Pavlov's paper is Chapter 11 in Psychologies of 1930, edited by Carl Murchison (Worcester, Mass: Clark University Press, 1930.) It is a revised version of the presentation by Pavlov at an international congress of psychology at Yale University in New Haven CT in September 1929. "Hoping to popularize his research abroad and eager to escape the wearing and increasingly worrisome realities of Soviet life, Pavlov determined from the earliest days of 1929 to attend two international conferences scheduled for the United States in August and September: the Physiological Congress at Harvard University and the Psychological Congress at Yale. . . . Pavlov received a hero's welcome at both the physiology congress (August 19-23) and the psychology congress (September 1-8), but his was the triumph of an iconic figure, a symbol. . . . What he said at these gathering was clearly much less important than who he was and what he had come to symbolize. . . . The consistently enthralled accounts of his appearances . . . dwelled . . . upon the great liveliness and energy of this great old man of physiology, this passionate gray-bearded Russian who had survived so much adversity, defied his country's Communist rulers, and come to symbolize the possibility that experimental biology might explain and control human nature. . . . After the congress, the Pavlovs traveled with the Cannons to their home in New Hampshire, and then continued north to visit the Babkins in Montreal before going to New Haven for the psychology congress. Like the physiology congress, this was the first of its kind convened in the United States, which now boasted fully half of the world's psychologists. Pavlov was again accorded an honored place, delivering the first plenary lecture [the work offered here]. And again it was his affect and stature that commanded attention. Vladimir [Pavlov's son] informed Babkin that 'In New Haven, they hailed his paper, singling him out as they had in Boston, and his lecture was an enormous success. . . . Papa himself was very content with his encounter with the psychologists, who completely agree with him about many things' " (Todes, Ivan Pavlov, a Russian Life in Science, pp. 565-568). "Pavlov's talk was revised and published as 'A Brief Outline of the Higher Nervous Activity' [offered here], in Murchison, Psychologies of 1930" (Todes, ibid., fn. 14 on p. 795). Signed by Author(s).