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Unjustified Jung...
...Carl Gustav Jung (TIME, Nov. 9) makes as rash and unjustified a statement as he did in 1930 when in a Forum essay he said that white Americans had acquired a Negroid and Indian behaviour. Again it seems that Dr. Jung hears the bells but doesn't know where they're hanging. By attributing to Franklin D. Roosevelt "the most amazing power complex, the Mussolini substance, the stuff of a dictator absolutely," the analytical psychologist Jung overlooks the subtle but nevertheless gravitating difference between a leading statesman supported by more than...
...Jung spends now and then a few weeks in the U. S., but even if he had spent all of the time of his last sojourn in America in the company of Mr. Roosevelt, as a scientifically inclined psychologist, he could not have justified his sweeping statement. As is so often the case with European scientists and "observers," the American mentality, the American concept and interpretation of democracy, and the true causes on which these are based, are foreign to Dr. .lung. He discovers Negroid and Indian traits in our mentality while he doesn't see that the Negroes...
...been said by authorities and lay-folk that psychoanalysts, commonly called "Analysts," are rich-men's doctors. If so, it would be obvious where Dr. Jung, whose personal acquaintance with Mr. Roosevelt is but the very slightest, gained his information about...
...Jung added that in the cycle by which a democratic state gives way to a Dictator, who in turn yields to an Oligarchy, which finally starts the process all over again by getting around to Democracy, the crisis comes when "the people look to their state to give them more wages, higher standards of living. . . . And so the time comes when the state must make fake money. First it is called 'inflation.' Then, because that is unpopular, 'devaluation.' Now they are calling it 'dilution.' But it is all the same thing -fake money. Thus...