Word: belief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Prophets. Freud, says Progoff, was guided by "the habits of mind of a medical man working with a neurological emphasis" and by his materialistic determinism, which led to his early belief that merely to analyze the origin of a condition was enough to cure it. (Also, Freud's unusual family setting, with a young mother but a father old enough to -be his grandfather, led to overemphasis on Oedipal feelings.) Though Pioneer Freud made a tremendous contribution, Progoff believes that his analytical and reductive point of view "leads to a dead end for depth psychology." At the heart...
...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, and if it is to fulfill its purpose...
...next day the loan began to have its hoped-for effect. The pound steadied in the London money market, rose from $2.78¼ to $2.78⅝ Speculators who had been selling the pound short in the belief that it might be devalued, began withdrawing from the attack. Further indirect support is almost certain in the shape of a U.S. Export-Import Bank loan, possibly as high as $700,000,000, to help finance Britain's foreign trade...
...agreement with Canada and Britain for declassifying secret information. (Canada, which exports ore only to the U.S., last week announced that its production rate of concentrate is 3,300 tons annually, and its known reserves are 225 million tons.) But it also reflects AEC Chairman Lewis Strauss's belief that private industry must be encouraged to increase its participation in atomic-power development rather than letting the job go to public-power plants. One way to prod private business, the AEC feels, is to put out more atomic facts...
SURPRISED BY JOY, by C. S. Lewis. A partial autobiography by the Oxford don, which makes Christianity an exciting intellectual adventure as well as an act of faith. Its description of the road that led from indifference to skepticism to a firm belief in God makes this one of the most graceful and credible "conversion" books in years...