Word: jungly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most famed among the secessionists are Carl Jung of Zürich, who has "retreated from psychoanalysis" into semi-religious therapy, and Alfred Adler, who died in Aberdeen two years ago. Adler held that man's mainspring is not sexual desire but a desire for superiority. Physical infirmity or family bullying produces an "inferiority complex." This complex, in turn, forces "overcompensation," or a transformation of weakness into strength. Because Demosthenes stuttered and Beethoven was deaf, said Adler, they developed inferiority complexes. Demosthenes compensated in magnificent oratory, Beethoven in magnificent music...
...rich Correspondent Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker interviewed Zürich Psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung, original Freud disciple who quarreled with Dr. Freud over personal problems and psychoanalytic theory 28 years ago, founded a rival psychoanalytic system. Adolf Hitler, said Dr. Jung, "belongs in the category of the truly mystic medicine man. . . When I have a patient [who believes he is] acting under the command of a higher power [see p. 18], a power within him . . . I dare not tell him to disobey. . . . He won't do it if I do tell him. ... All I can do is attempt . . . to induce...
Although Dr. Jung stipulates that there is "an authentic religious function in the unconscious mind," orthodox religionists will not thank him for the left-handed compliment. "What is usually and generally called religion," he declares, "is to such an amazing degree a substitute that I ask myself seriously whether this kind of 'religion,' which I prefer to call a creed, has not an important function in human society. The substitution has the obvious purpose of replacing immediate experience by a choice of suitable symbols invested in a solidly organized dogma and ritual. The Catholic Church maintains them...
True religious experience, however, proved salutary for Dr. Jung's patient of the 400 dreams. An intelligent man, the patient believed he was irreligious, but Dr. Jung knew better. The dream of the mosquelike church (preceded and followed by equally revealing dream-imagery) demonstrated an inner approval of the Church coupled with a pagan point of view, to which the woman, "a very important minority"-the anima or feminine side of the man's unconscious-makes vigorous objection. In a subsequent climax-dream the patient felt an "impression of the most sublime harmony," which marked the turning point...
...dreams and in researches he made among theological, philosophical and mystical works, Dr. Jung found the quaternity symbol everywhere. The square, the circle, the mystic squared circle suggest four; the Buddhist mandala-symbol is usually a circular lotus containing a square building with four gates; there are four seasons, four points of the compass, four Evangelists, etc. In the patient's dream of the "world clock" appeared "four little men," just as people in groups of four tended to appear in all his dreams. Only the Christian symbol of the Trinity fails to conform to this system of fours...