Brink-Elovitz September 11 Exchange on Historians’ Response to the Emotional Life of Nations Symposium in Clio’s Psyche, September 2003

Andrew Whitelaw Brink, PhD, was a literary scholar who researched and published extensively in artistic creativity, psychobiography, Colonial America, and pacifism. He taught literature at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, from 1961-1988, and then headed the now defunct Humanities and Psychoanalytic Thought Programme at the University of Toronto from 1988-1993 before retiring to devote himself fully to scholarship. Brink had an abiding interest in the British “object relations” theorists and the durability of their ideas about personality formation and psychopathology. He was the Trustee Emeritus of the Holland Society of New York, a member of the Editorial Committee of de Halve Maen: Magazine of the Dutch Colonial Period in America, and on the Editorial Board of Clio’s Psyche. Among the books Professor Brink authored are Loss and Symbolic Repair: A Study of Some English Poets (1977), Creativity as Repair: Bipolarity and Its Closure (1982), Bertrand Russell: The Psychobiography of a Moralist (1989), Obsession and Culture: A Study of Sexual Obsessions in the Modern Novel (1996), The Creative Matrix (2000), Invading Paradise: Esopus Settlers at War with Natives, 1659, 1663 (2003), Desire and Avoidance in Art (2007), and Claudian England (2012). Professor Brink died on November 25, 2011 and is commemorated with three memorials in this issue.