looking for an article called "The Dreams Of The Blind" from Joseph Jastrow

January 26, 2005 12:15 PM

I am looking for an article called "The Dreams Of The Blind" from Joseph Jastrow which has been published in the New Princeton Review in 1888. My Google-Fu and my university's database did not help...
posted by tcp to writing & language (7 comments total)

I've found 2 versions of the citation with different years:

Jastrow J. The dreams of the blind. New Princeton Review 1880;5:19-34.

Jastrow, Joseph, The Dreams of the Blind, New Princeton Review, Vol. 5, January, 1988, pp. 19-34.

The journal exists in the UC system. Looking at the record, I'd guess that the 1888 year you cite is correct. Are there any University libraries near you?
posted by jasper411 at 12:44 PM on January 26, 2005

Did you ask at your university library? They can get a copy of it for you through interlibrary loan. Several libraries appear to have this periodical on microfilm.
posted by arco at 12:45 PM on January 26, 2005

I did some poking around in the library database here, and it found the article you're asking about within a collection of essays by Jastrow called Fact and Fable in Psychology, published in 1900 by Houghton, Mifflin & Co. You might have better luck searching for that in your library, instead of the periodical itself.

I can't find any electronic versions of the New Princeton Review past 1882, though. I did find an eletronic review of Fact and Fable, though I doubt that does you much good.
posted by sellout at 12:48 PM on January 26, 2005

I assume you've gotten as far as the archives containing earlier versions of this journal? Sadly, the year you're looking for doesn't seem to be online there, though it is available via microfilm at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburg. If you're a student, you should really be talking to your local friendly librarian to see if they can interlibrary loan this to you, though since you're not in the US I'm not certain how easy this is. The full cite to this article is

Jastrow J. The dreams of the blind. New Princeton Review 1888?;5:19-34.

and it looks like he wrote another very similar chapter/article in his book here

Jastrow, J. (1900). The dreams of the blind. In Fact and Fable in Psychology. (pp. 337-370).

Interestingly, he was also the originator of the duck/rabbit perceptual game. On preview, damn you guys are good!
posted by jessamyn at 12:54 PM on January 26, 2005

Author: Jastrow, Joseph, 1863-1944.
Title: Fact and fable in psychology / by Joseph Jastrow.
Publisher: Boston : Houghton, Mifflin and Co. ; Cambridge [Mass.] : Riverside Press, 1901.
Description: xvii, 375 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Contents: The modern occult ---The problems of psychical research ---The logic of mental telegraphy ---The psychology of deception ---The psychology of spiritualism -- Hypnotism and its antecedents ---The natural history of analogy ---The mind's eye -- Mental prepossession and inertia -- A study of involuntary movements ---The dreams of the blind. Notes: Includes index.
OCLC: (OCoLC)ocm48435264

Here it is, in Fact and Fable.
If you want a copy of the article, let me know. It'd take me a couple days to get it, but Jastrow is my homie.
My e-mail's in my profile.
posted by Floydd at 12:55 PM on January 26, 2005

Wow, great. I will ask my university's library to get me that article, in case they cannot get it I'll come back to you, Floydd. Thanks!
posted by tcp at 1:04 PM on January 26, 2005

It's also available at my library. I'm in there on a daily basis, so let me know if you want a copy.
posted by sanko at 3:51 PM on January 26, 2005