Word: jungly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hofmann's study will try to provide a theological understanding of the human personality with special attention to the insights, problems, and methods of depth psychology. He has studied psychology under Karl Jung, Jean Piaget, and Ludwig Binswanger, and is the author of The Theology of Reinhold Niebuhr, published last year...
Regarding the Dec. 24 article, "A Soul Without Psychology": Dr. Ira Progoff is making the same mistake as Freud, Adler, Jung and Rank have made. He is looking for an absolute truth, through which he can understand the complexities of human personality. Such an absolute probably does not exist; nor is it necessary in the study of psychology. Rather than look for something "nonrational" or spiritual (the soul), Progoff should content himself with rational probabilities. Human personality, although it is something abstract, is affected by a material environment-even in its seemingly spiritual characteristics...
After more than half a century of brilliant research into the emotional causes of schizophrenia, Zurich's famed Psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung, 81, made a startling switch last week, conceded that perhaps the causes of schizophrenia should be sought in biochemical poisoning. (Research based on this idea is already well started at many U.S. centers.) Said Jung in a Voice of America broadcast...
Progoff sums up Rank's achievement: "Both Jung and Adler went to the borders of psychology and looked beyond. Each was convinced . . . that the truth about man's life lies somewhere over the edges of psychological theory. It remained for Otto Rank to demonstrate that this was much more than a personal belief of theirs but an unavoidable outcome of psychoanalysis. [He] showed that all analytical types of psychology require a step beyond themselves; otherwise they remain on the treadmill of self-conscious analysis." Depth psychology, believes Dr. Progoff, has only a transitional role in history...
Together, Freud, Adler, Jung and Rank have formed the foundations of a new psychology. But this, Progoff believes, will eventually consume itself, phoenixlike, in its own fire as it puts man-with an infinitely deeper rational understanding of himself than he ever had before-into harmony with the deeper, nonrational forces of the universe. This will be the point when man achieves "a soul without psychology...