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these are the medical type usually involving a psych- iatrist. Of course, this type serves a double pup- pose since it serves to lampoon the psychiatrist, whom everyone recognizes as fair game, as well as the idea of TV. The fact that the psychiatrist is himself of- ten cast in the TV role also llustrates how basic- ally human the phenomenon is, because psychiatrists, of all people, should be able to be in full control of their behaviour and understand themselves perfect- ly. (This is the layman's idea and is not true. As

a reasonably good generalization it may be stated sthat the reason people go into psychiatry in the first place is because they already have some sort of personality problem of their own.)

Next, on pages 60,61, and 62 come a group of car- toons which I like to think of as "sub-liminal" TV types. These show some aspect of cross-dressing which is not the complete picture but which illustrate the cross gender aspects of life. It cannot be said that the cartoonists who draw these pictures are real or suppressed TVs---we just don't know, but it is tempting to speculate that the tendency to draw such cartoons is a manifestation of a latent interest in TVism which just comes out in this way. Just as an actor can get away with behaviour that would ruin an ordinary man because of the idea that anything goes in the theatrical world, so a cartoonist can write and draw things with impunity that he could never do in fact. So that just as reading TV fiction is a vi- carious experience to the TV so perhaps are the var- ious types of cartoon shown on these pages. The car- toonist dares to draw what he dare not ally, if one of the cartoonists reads this he is going to rise in all his masculine majesty and violently de- nounce such an idea. But isn't that the masculine ego's way of reacting to everything feminine?

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Pages 63,64 and 65 are cartoons devoted primarily to take offs on the current styles of clothing and hairdos and involve TV only indirectly. Hope you en- joyed these.

VIRGINIA.