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...this, young (35) Dr. Progoff, now practicing "depth psychology" in Manhattan, attempts a bold task: reconciling the often violently discordant views of modern psychology's major prophets-Sigmund Freud, Alfred Adler, Carl Gustav Jung and Otto Rank. Says Progoff: "When we make allowances for the areas where they overlap, repeat each other, or say the same thing in different words, and when we balance out the personal facts that led to undue emphasis in one direction or another, there remains a fundamental con-isistency in the development of [their] thought and practice." As Progoff sees it, Freud took...
...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...
...compensation, and often overcompensation, must have been derived from his childhood. (Adler's earliest memory was of himself as an ailing, rachitic two-year-old, bandaged like a mummy, immobile on a park bench while his elder brother bounced around showing off his prowess.) A disciple of Freud until he broke with him in 1911, Adler insisted that human beings are called upon to advance "an ideal society amongst mankind...
...Jung's complex and often obscure theories Progoff distills an essence: that mankind has a collective "Self," which can be fully realized only through a religious outlook, regardless of creed. This abstract Self, with many features of the ancient soul, is utterly foreign to the sexual debris that Freud found at the bottom of the unconscious well...
...writes: "I cannot conceive the possibility of God loving me, when I feel so clearly that even the affection which human beings evince for me can only be a mistake on their part." Yet she was not incapable of self-analysis, and at one point duels shrewdly with Freud: "To reproach mystics with loving God by means of the faculty of sexual love is as though one were to reproach a painter with making pictures by means of colors composed of material substances. We haven't anything else with which to love ... The whole of Freudian doctrine is saturated...