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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...
...Freud plunged into psychology and self-analysis, declared himself dedicated forever to the scientific search for the "naked truth." Having lived ascetically before marriage, he lived monogamously thereafter. Schnitzler discovered what he called "fictional truth," had a series of well-publicized affairs with glamorous actresses, and feverishly wrote about a character named Anatol (a thinly disguised self-portrait) who was a gay yet morbid epicure, a dandy with a death wish who thought he had to die to be truly free. Through the turmoil of world war and revolution, Schnitzler wrote play after play (notably Der Reigen or La Ronde...
...other respects, too, said Dr. Kupper, "Schnitzler's use of psychoanalytic concepts seems to exhibit the same progressions as Freud's scientific investigations." His early works, e.g., Paracelsus (1897), use hypnosis "as a comic and plot device to penetrate the realms of the unconscious." This was the period when Freud still hoped to put hypnosis to good medical use. Later plays, e.g., Intermezzo, Comedy of Seduction (1905, 1924), stress unconscious motivation of behavior not unlike Freud's Studies in Hysteria (1893). These, says Dr. Kupper, were followed by works involving concepts of resistance, transference and repression during...
Introspection & Intuition. Freud himself summed up this continuing similarity in his letter to Schnitzler: "I have gained the impression that you have learned through intuition-though actually as a result of sensitive introspection-everything that I have had to unearth by laborious work on other persons. I even believe that basically you are yourself a depth psychologist...
...Analyst Kupper suggests a question: If Poet Schnitzler was really a psychologist, was Psychologist Freud perhaps really a poet? For a long time before Freud, the soul had belonged in the domain of poets more than of physicians, who had increasingly concerned themselves with the physical being. Freud tried to subject the intangibles of the soul to the discipline of scientific materialism and determinism. And yet his insights may have been closer to the truths of poetry than to the truths of science...