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...Freudian probe" that has unveiled "an abyss within man, full of new embarrassments and a new terror...
Teaching and practicing in Zurich, young Dr. Jung was fired by Freud's descriptions of psychoanalysis. In 1907 he made a pilgrimage to Vienna and was confirmed in the Freudian faith. In the tall Teuton, Freud saw his heir apparent...
...Freudian psychoanalysis and the use of analytic principles in psychiatry, Snezhnevsky & Ko. gave a firm nyet. "We reject psychoanalysis," he said, "because its methods and theory are unscientific. Psychoanalysis rejects the material basis of psychological life. We use instead rational psychotherapy-we prefer to work with the conscious mind, where we find the material bases for mental illnesses...
Only if the patient is violent, or his illness stubbornly persistent, is he sent away to a hospital. His stay there is almost certain to be less than three months. In the hospital, he gets much the same treatment he would get in the West: drugs, psychotherapy (but non-Freudian), insulin coma and, more rarely, electric shock. The Russians have virtually abandoned their prolonged (ten-day) drug-induced sleep treatment because too many patients developed fevers or anemia. As soon as possible, the patient is discharged to his family, which is paid by the government to care...
...tribe at once polygamous and polyandrous. Among the wholly amoral cast of characters: Martin Lynch-Gibbon, an elegant but asthmatic London wine merchant, who is also the novel's narrator; his blonde wife Antonia; his black-haired mistress, Georgie; their joint analyst, Anderson Palmer, a smooth, prosperous Freudian who, despite a "big white American smile," is also something of a warlock and misleads both women from couch to bed; Palmer's sister, Dr. Honor Klein, a notable witch and anthropologist given to fingering a samurai sword while talking of herself as a severed head (see Freud on Medusa...