[Ads-l] Fw: Antedating of "Dianetics" and "Dianetic"

[Shapiro, Fred]

In my citation below, "in Alec Nevada-Lee Astounding (1984)" is not accurate.  A better source is "in The Complete Collection of the John W. Campbell Letters (Microfilm, Reel 2)."

Fred Shapiro


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dianetics (OED 1950)

1949 L. Ron Hubbard Letter to John W. Campbell Jr. 9 Dec. in Alec Nevala-Lee Astounding (1984)

No psychiatrist to date has been able to look at Dianetics and listen long enough to find out the fundamentals, Dianetic explanations being dinned out by his educational efforts about Freud.

dianetic (OED 1951)

See above.

Fred Shapiro

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Subject: Antedating of "Dianetics" and "Dianetic"

dianetics (OED 1950)

1949 L. Ron Hubbard Letter to John W. Campbell Jr. 9 Dec. in Alec Nevala-Lee Astounding (1984)

No psychiatrist to date has been able to look at Dianetics and listen long enough to find out the fundamentals, Dianetic explanations being dinned out by his educational efforts about Freud.

dianetic (OED 1951)

See above.

Fred Shapiro

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