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Regarding the Dec. 24 article, "A Soul Without Psychology": Dr. Ira Progoff is making the same mistake as Freud, Adler, Jung and Rank have made. He is looking for an absolute truth, through which he can understand the complexities of human personality. Such an absolute probably does not exist; nor is it necessary in the study of psychology. Rather than look for something "nonrational" or spiritual (the soul), Progoff should content himself with rational probabilities. Human personality, although it is something abstract, is affected by a material environment-even in its seemingly spiritual characteristics...
...toward Stalingrad, the sprawling work, which in one version took eight hours, had been performed only once before outside Russia (in Florence, in 1953). The present 2½hour edition-brilliantly produced in an English translation by NBC-TV's enterprising Opera Theater, and conducted by Peter Herman Adler-was. the version Prokofiev himself approved before his death four years ago. It turned out to be less an opera than a pageant, but it offered some of the best music Prokofiev ever wrote...
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...
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...