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Your review of Mr. Hutchins' Great Conversation [Sept. 21] points up the end of an era. Adler and Hutchins were the great reactionaries of philosophy at a time when it had reached a low ebb. Flying against the strong winds of experimentalism, their banner of Platonism called the unbeliever to return to the ancient modes of thought. Standing almost alone at times, they did us and the country a very real service...
...however, since most of our modern philosophers have turned from a headlong flight into change for the sake of change, the leadership of Adler and Hutchins seems puny indeed. It is now universally recognized that one must know what Plato said, but one must also know how much of it is the purest kind of tommy...
...were good and loud that year, sex was still primarily something to be enjoyed in the Vienna woods rather than to be talked about by learned doctors, and all seemed well with the world. But Vienna's Dr. Sigmund Freud was gloomy: two heretics, Carl Jung and Alfred Adler, had rebelled against the Freudian tenets. In this crisis, six loyal disciples solemnly undertook to uphold the straight gospel, and to each, Freud presented a jewel. That was in 1912, and of the select six, only one survives: Ernest Jones, 74, a spry, Homburg-hatted little Welshman* whom Freud called...
Today, Jones thinks the Adler-Jung heresies have "pretty well faded out," but in his forthcoming massive biography of the master, he concedes that Freud's was "not a complete, rounded-off theory . . . but a gradually opening vista, occasionally blurred and again clarified." Last week's conference brought at least one blur. Dr. Edith Weigert of Chevy Chase, Md. reported that, while theoretically the patient "transfers" to the analyst, it can work the other way too. Sometimes, said Dr. Weigert, "in phases of negative transference" the analyst's "own anxieties exceed those of the patient...
...Howard Adler, New York City; Guy L. Barron, Detroit, Mich.; David H. Bodiker, Dayton, Ohio; Robert A. Bowman, New York City; Harold B. Downey, Elmhurst, Ill.; George B. Doyle, Worcester, Mass.; John S. Getch, Ashley, Pa.; Lewis W. Goetz, Watsoka, Ill.; Roger A. Golde, Chicago, Ill.; John W. Hurst, Bremerton, Wash.; Warren Kantrowitz, Natick, Mass.; Arthur G. Siler, Orinda, Calif.; Laurence A. Stein, Jersey City, N. J.; John W. Van Doren, Akron, Ohio...