After his own discharge Neville wrote to a Freudian friend of the same age who was equally eligible, telling him what he had done; the friend never answered and stayed in the army until the war ended, having once told Neville he pressed his feet into the carpet at Neville's New York meetings to keep hold of reality.
Date (happened)
c. March 1943
conclusion · probable
Why
dc1-agreement-20261004, pm-actor-551 (PM 8702)
Reasoning
1 claim, no conflict: c. 1943-03 (passage:528488).
c. March 1943
estimated · probable · preferred
Why
The friend's own fate (stayed in the army until the war ended) is a bound of 'after 1943' with no further precision, not repeated here as a separate claim.
Reasoning
Neville frames the letter as written right after his own discharge ('when it happened to me... I wrote a friend'); the corpus anchor dates his discharge to March 1943 from his own platform account, so the letter falls circa that same month. The Army anchor's own ceiling is probable, so this derived claim cannot exceed it.
Told
19 February 1965
conclusion · probable
Why
dc1-agreement-20261004, pm-actor-551 (PM 8702)
Reasoning
1 claim, no conflict: 1965-02-19 (node:1913).
19 February 1965
estimated · probable
Reasoning
The anecdote about the friend is recounted as a past occurrence during this lecture; the telling is dated by the lecture's probable delivery claim of 1965-02-19 (his own February 19th birthday vision, dated by a December 1964 congress reference).
Sources
Source
- The Secret of the Sperm ¶24 (So when it happened to me in nine days I wrote a friend of mine who was my age, who was just as eligible, and I wrote him and I told him what I had done. He never answered my letter. He’s a Freudian.)