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Magic & Death Wishes. Biographer Jones, for all his hero worship, belongs to the warts-and-all school, and notes some strange quirks in Freud's character: ¶ Despite his insistence that he was a scientist first and last, Freud clung stubbornly to Lamarck's idea that acquired traits can be inherited-which to serious scientists now makes no more sense than the notion that the earth is flat. ¶ Throughout his life, Freud dabbled with occultism and telepathy. He narrowly avoided publishing acceptance of some weird, spiritistic rigmarole, but he made it plain in private that he believed...
Says Jones: "The theme of death, the dread of it and the wish for it, had always been a continual preoccupation of Freud's mind as far back as we know anything about it." Freud's reactions to his mother's death at 95 were unusual. She had been in great pain, so he was glad of her release. Beyond that, he was relieved that now he was free to die without causing her grief-he had always, he said, been afraid that he might die first and cause her suffering. Freudian Jones sees in this...
...Summing Up. When it comes to assessing Freud's influence on his fellow men, Jones sees a snag. "What chiefly impresses [a psychoanalyst]," he says, "is the shallowness of so much of what passes as acceptance of Freud's ideas, and the superficiality with which they are treated. They are so often bandied about lightly as a form of lip service that one cannot help suspecting that much of the so-called acceptance is really a subtle form of rejection, a protection against assimilation of their profound import...
Jones has no hesitation in claiming for Freud a major contribution to psychiatry by bringing the neuroses out of the limbo of "imaginary" complaints and into treatment, and by laying the foundation for the recent development of psychosomatic medicine. Also to Freud's credit he lays much of the greater tolerance now shown by laymen toward severe mental illness and more humane ways of treating it. In psychology itself, Jones holds, Freud's investigative method compares in importance with the discovery of the microscope-"in both cases a hitherto invisible world was revealed...
...they are unable to define. Few thinking people nowadays would claim a complete knowledge of themselves, or that what they are consciously aware of comprises the whole of their mentality. And this recognition, with all its formidable consequences for the future of social organization, we owe above all to Freud . . . Man's chief enemy and danger is his own unruly nature and the dark forces pent up within him. If our race is lucky enough to survive for another thousand years the name of Sigmund Freud will be remembered as that of the man who first ascertained the origin...