169). Janis's death bothered him. He has his own lingering thoughts about death (Faris and Faris, p.169). Jim is aware that he is slipping into despair, voicing his concern that he does not know who he is. The excitement of performing and inciting people is not enough to quiet the demons anymore. At best the emptiness has become more dreadful. His first line of defense-alcohol-has ceased to numb the pain of emptiness (Faris and Faris, p.169). He is thinking of getting away, thinking again of doing more work on his poetry. In his mind, Paris offers him hope as he plans to leave the Doors (Faris and Faris, p.169). What follows is the information conducted during several sessions I had with Jim.
James Douglas Morrison was born in 1943 in Melbourne, Florida, near what is now Cape Kennedy (Hopkins, p.33). For the next two years, until the war ended, he and his mother lived with his father's parents in Clearwater, in a house that was a safe, warm growing-up environment. When Jim's father, Admiral George S. Morrison, returned following the end of the war, he and his family began a typical military lifestyle (Hopkins, p.33). Mr. Morrison's duty assignments forced his family to move from station to station: Jim lived in Pensacola, Melbourne, and Clearwater, Florida, twice in both Washington, D.C. and Albuquerque, New Mexico, and once each in Los Altos, Claremont, and Alameda, California before he finally attended high school in Alexandria, Virginia (Faris and Faris, p.142). .
Neither parents spanked the children (Jim had a younger brother and sister). Jim said it was the quasi-military way of disciplining. His parents always "dressed them down" (a military phrase), to tell them what they had done wrong over and over again, until reducing them to tears. Jim learned to hold back his tears. Away much of the time, Jim's father fluctuating between treating his children as recruits and exercising little parental authority, choosing instead to let his wife apply whatever discipline might be necessary (Faris and Faris, p.