This brief memoir reports a freighted conversation between the author and Christiana Morgan-Henry A. Murray's longtime mystical companion-in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1961. The principal topic was her idea, called the creative paranoid hypothesis, that people who have special pressures (such as the truly gifted, or the Jewish people as a whole) are more apt to make meaningful artistic or intellectual contributions. She was troubled by the burden of having to hold onto her belief in her own unrecognized potential greatness and wanted to explore how it might tie to Jewishness, of which the author was a convenient living example. Over and above the content of the talk, what was most memorable were the illuminating insights into the special relationship between Murray and Morgan, specifically how an extraordinary woman can influence a great man and subtly change the course of intellectual history.
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