“Renowned psychologist” Dr. Herman Vosberg addresses the Cornell Women's Cosmopolitan Club. The breathlessly hyped lecture, on “Dreams and the Calculus,” featured dreams plotted on a cartesian plane, which Vosberg interpreted at the intersections of consciousness, spirituality, and desire.
On Tuesday, the Cornell Daily Sun reports that Dr. Vosberg was “not himself,” but Charlie M. Stotz '21 O-105, “a student of Architecture, but not of Freud.” The escapade had been instigated by Daisy Farrand, wife of Cornell's president, who felt Cornell life was a little dull, and needed a good hoax to liven it up. It made headlines around the world decrying psychoanalysis—not to mention the gullibility of the professoriate.
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