The Psychology of Self-Esteem

Notes

Introduction

1. Branden, N. Who Is Ayn Rand? New York: Random House, 1962.

Chapter One

1. Rand, A. An Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology. New York: The Objectivist, 1967, p. 52.


2. Pratt, J. B. Matter and Spirit. New York: Macmillan, 1922, pp. 11–12.


3. Blanshard, B. The Nature of Thought. New York: Macmillan, 1939, pp. 336–337.


4. For a valuable discussion of Aristotle's views concerning consciousness and life, see John Herman Randall, Jr.,
   Aristotle (New York: Columbia University Press, 1960).


5. Roback, A. A. History of American Psychology. New York: Library Publishers, 1952.


6. For an especially devastating critique, see Brand Blanshard, The Nature of Thought. Vol. 1. New York:
   Macmillan, 1939, pp. 313–340. See also: C. D. Broad, The Mind and Its Place in Nature (Paterson, NJ.: Littlefield,
   Adams and Co., 1960), pp. 612–624; Robert Efron, ''The Conditioned Reflex: A Meaningless Concept,"
   Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 1966, 9, pp. 488–514; Robert Efron, "Biology Without Consciousness—and
   Its Consequences," Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 1967, 11 , pp. 9–36; Arthur Koestler, The Ghost in the
   Machine (New York: Macmillan, 1968), pp. 3–44.

Chapter Two

1. See Freud, S. Beyond the Pleasure Principle. New York: Liveright, 1950.


2. Quoted in Healy, Bronner, and Bowers, The Structure and Meaning of Psychoanalysis. New York: Knopf, 1930,
   p. 72.