. I plan to expand the following essay into a book‐length study tentatively entitled Joy, Care, and Control: The Cultures of Contemporary Psychology.

. William James, The Will lo Believe (New York: Dover Publications, 1956), p. 211.

. Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1958), pp. 98–127.

. James, Will to Believe, p. 9. See also the excellent article by Frank Lentricchia on the aesthetic and romantic dimensions of James, “William James” Romanticism,” Salmagundi(Winter 1974), pp. 81–108.

. John Wild, The Radical Empiricism of William James (New York: Doubleday & Co., 1970); Bruce Wilshire, William James and Phenomenology (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1968); Hans Linschoten, On the Way towards a Phenomenological Psychology: The Psychology of William James (Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1968).

. James, Will to Believe, p. 218.

. Ibid., p. 221.

. Ibid., p. 226.

. Ibid., p. 227.

. Heinz Hartmann, Ego Psychology and the Problem of Adaptation (New York: International Universities Press, 1958), p. 46.

. B. F. Skinner, Beyond Freedom and Dignity (New York: Bantam Books, 1971), p. 136.

. Sigmund Freud, New Introductory Lectures (New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1933), p. 136.

. William James, The Principles of Psychology (New York: Dover Publications, 1950), 2:390.

. Ibid., 1:141–42.

. Ibid., p. 140.

. Ralph Berton Perry, The Thought and Character of William James (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1935), 2:323.

. James, Principles, 2:560.

. Ibid., p. 522.

. William James, Psychology: The Briefer Course (New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1961), p. 306.

. Robert White, Ego Reality in Psychoanalytic Theory (New York: International Universities Press, 1963).

. James, Psychology, p. 311.

. William James, Varieties of Religious Experience (New York: Bantam Books, 1950), p. 40.

. Wild, p. 296.

. James, Varieties, p. 101. See also “Gospel of Relaxation,” in Talks to Teachers on Psychology (New York: Dover Publications, 1962), pp. 99–112.

. James, Varieties, p. 139.

. Ibid., p. 143.

. Ibid., p. 207.

. Ibid., p. 235.

. Ibid., p. 288.

. Ibid.

. Ibid., p. 276.

. Ibid.

. Ibid., p. 289.

. William James, Essays in Radical Empiricism and A Pluralistic Universe (New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1971), p. 139.

. James, Pluralistic Universe, p. 269.

. William James, The Meaning of Truth (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1970), p. 226.

. Ibid., p. 227.

. Ibid., p. 228.

. Ibid., p. 229.