Re: The Pages of Punch
1938: Consulting a More Modern Kind of Guru
Another form of getting exotic guidance was the growing interest in psychiatry though this was necessarily an activity confined to those with substantial incomes. The cartoon suggests some sort of dominance of the practitioner over the client and that the client likes this although she is complaining.
An anorak reaction to the wording here is to identify Mr Prober as a Jungian analyst since the Freudians talked about the unconscious and the Jungians always used the term subconscious. I am not at all sure that the anorak is justified in detecting this degree of precision. The cartoonist is probably rather vague about such things. After all, Mr Prober’s brass plate proclaims that he is a psychologist – not the same thing at all. (His ‘qualification’ contains a little joke.)