Word: adler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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JULY. Confidential will write an expose of the Harvard Summer School. The article will brand Professor Pitirim Sorokin "The intellectual's answer to Polly Adler." Professor Fieser will declare that he can create complex organic forms. President Pusey will challenge him to make a tree...
Switzerland's Carl Jung came still closer to man's spiritual core. Adler had broadened the picture to include social instincts; Jung deepened it to include religious instincts. From Jung's complex and often obscure theories Progoff distills an essence: that mankind has a collective "Self," which can be fully realized only through a religious outlook, regardless of creed. This abstract Self, with many features of the ancient soul, is utterly foreign to the sexual debris that Freud found at the bottom of the unconscious well...
...nihilism." Rank's rebellion took him through many stages. In one he attached overwhelming importance to birth trauma as a source of neurotic difficulties. In another he blasted Freud's emphasis on the unconscious, called for a "psychology of the conscious." Immortality-at which Freud scoffed, which Adler ignored, and at which Jung only broadly hinted-achieved outstanding importance for Rank. It became something that each individual had to attain for him self on the plane of "spiritual realities." To Rank, man's core was the "will to immortality," that is, "man's inherent need...
Progoff sums up Rank's achievement: "Both Jung and Adler went to the borders of psychology and looked beyond. Each was convinced . . . that the truth about man's life lies somewhere over the edges of psychological theory. It remained for Otto Rank to demonstrate that this was much more than a personal belief of theirs but an unavoidable outcome of psychoanalysis. [He] showed that all analytical types of psychology require a step beyond themselves; otherwise they remain on the treadmill of self-conscious analysis." Depth psychology, believes Dr. Progoff, has only a transitional role in history...
Together, Freud, Adler, Jung and Rank have formed the foundations of a new psychology. But this, Progoff believes, will eventually consume itself, phoenixlike, in its own fire as it puts man-with an infinitely deeper rational understanding of himself than he ever had before-into harmony with the deeper, nonrational forces of the universe. This will be the point when man achieves "a soul without psychology...