Word: dogma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jung himself is inclined to agree with both his admirers and his critics. His own conception of religion is so eclectic, that it embraces everything from Catholicism to Hinduism, Taoism and Zen Buddhism, and finds truth of some sort in nearly every form of dogma and ritual. "His principal weakness, aside from overeating," a close associate recently remarked, "is his habit of seeing all points of view and agreeing with practically everybody." "The idea an an all powerful being," says Jung himself, "is present everywhere, if not consciously recognized, then unconsciously accepted...I consider it wiser to recognize the idea...
...authors find Freud's anti-religion philosophy (e.g., the theories that God is a "father-image" invented by man, that instincts-principally sex-motivate all human behavior) so much unproved and badly stated "dogma." Since patients often have moral problems connected with their neurosis, "it is dangerous, and very much so, when the psychiatrist is guided . . . by the materialistic philosophy of human nature which Freud championed so ardently." The book also frowns on modern "client-centered therapy," particularly when a doctor tries to solve "religious and moral difficulties" by dissecting the patient's psyche, then letting the patient...
...Anglo-Catholic segment in the church, seminarians have recently been getting too Catholic for comfort. Led by Father Everett B. Bosshard, professor of dogmatic theology, most students, the trustees complained, had adopted such Roman Catholic practices as saying the rosary and burning votive candles, were drifting toward such "Romanist" dogma as the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary. Last month the trustees fired Father Bosshard only to have the students, 47 to 1, demand his reinstatement. Dean William H. Nes, unable to change the students' viewpoint, resigned himself. The trustees are now looking for a successor. Said Milwaukee...
...toward the whirlpool of Charybdis. When the returns were in from the 8,000,000 voters in southern Italy's municipal elections, the Communists had been held in check and Rome had been saved by Premier Alcide de Gasperi's Demo-Christian bloc. But a discredited old dogma made a startling comeback and created a new danger...
...story of a hard earth bound New England family, Desire Under the Elms is a study of the forms of possession which find root in the Puritan dogma. It is tragedy in its deepest most elemental sense. Each character seeks justification for his cruelty to the others by his fear of the wrath of an Old Testament God. An elemental force drives each to "Willow everything," to consume love and property in the desire for self increase. But through all the crude violence and apparent pessimism of the play there arises an intense affirmation of the dignity...