Note 21 — APPENDIX 6: PHYSIOLOGY OF PEYOTE

Wertham and Bleuler, 60. The presence of prior suggestion is blatantly obvious. Cf. Karwoski, 212: “To the sexologist an easy way of obliterating temporarily the genital response is offered since mescal is a powerful anaphrodisiac.... My own experience confirms the anaphrodisiac properties of mescal, but the fact that under its influence I found my imagination turning to erotic situations, although temporarily impotent, is an illustration of the persistence of conditioning that offers an interesting suggestion with reference to the extirpation experiments reported in the controversy over the James-Lange theory of emotions.” Unfortunately, culture cannot be extirpated.