ANGRY PSYCHOLOGIST

New Zealand Listener, Volume 24, Issue 623, 8 June 1951, Page 10

ANGRY PSYCHOLOGIST

FREUD OR JUNG, by Edward Glover; Allen and Unwin. English price, 15/-. R. GLOVER attempts in this book to show that the dream of a psychology in which contributions from Freud and from Jung are harmoniously intermingled can never be more than a dteam-the opposition between the two is too fundamental for any such reconciliation to be possible. He also attempts to persuade us to take Freud’s side in this conflict. This is the work of an angry man, and I think Dr. Glover

succeeds in showing us that he has something to be angry about. Apart from his more technical complaints, he exposes the hollowness of Jung’s pretensions to be a new defender of religion, and gives some disturbing illustrations of the pompous Nazi and near-Nazi pronouncements in which Jung permitted himself to indulge before Hitler’s deteat. At the same time, Dr, Glover conducts his attack with some humour (e.g., he says that Jung’s "psychobiological . pill, being ground down, is found to consist of nothing but sugar"), and he gives Jung credit for doing useful spade-work in a different field from psycho-analysis. But the book is marred by the language of rigorous party dis-cipline-the constant talk of "deviations," "schisms" and the like-which the Freudians seem to find it necessary to employ. Psychoanalysts at least provide good illustrations of their own thesis that it is a difficult thing to be

reasonable.

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