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1969 SHAW AND PSYCHOANALYSIS 375 character of Colonel Pickering, a benign older accomplice and colleague." (p. 150) Eliza Doolittle Weissman finds to be an unconscious combination of Shaw's recollections of his mother in his childhood and of "Mrs. Patrick Campbell ... of Shaw's current life." (P. 153) Moreover, "The counterpart for Eliza's father, Mr. Doolittle, is structured on the life of Shaw's maternal grandfather, Walter Bagnal Gurly," and, "Finally, the character of Mrs. Higgins, the hero's mother, again has her counterpart in Shaw's mother-but this time as a realistic portrayal of a woman in her sixties, when Shaw himself was in his early forties." (P. 153) Weissman also refers (pP. 148, 166) to an article by M. Stein, "The Marriage Bond," Psychoanalytical Quarterly (1956), in which Stein "regards Eliza as a phallic-equated woman.... He views Higgins as a created character unrelated to Shaw himself, or any other unconscious autobiographical derivative from the author's life;" to another article by E. H. Erikson, "The Problem of Ego Identity," Journal Of the American Psychoanalytical Association (1956), in which Erikson uses Shaw as an example; and to a paper, "Major Barbara: A Study of Communication ," read by P. Giovacchini to the American Psychoanalytical Association at Chicago in 1957, in which Giovacchini "has examined Shaw's capacity for communication in which he compares it to the analytic process of interpretation." (P. 148) Thus the professional psychoanalysts have already begun to batten on Shaw, though without always agreeing among themselves; but so far no full-length coherent study has emerged. NOTE The topic for the Modern Drama Conference of the Mid-west Modern Language Association, October 13-16, 1969, will be Continental Drama Since World War II. Anyone interested in reading a paper should contact Professor O. G. Brockett, Department of Speech and Theatre, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47401. ...