Word: insights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Somewhat concealed behind this display of histrionic fireworks, Shaw's play remains a superb bit of theatre. For two acts and a half it relates the pageant of the maid and in one scene after another sets off the spectacle with brilliant insight and unbeatable dialogue. In the epilouge Mr. Shaw takes the stage and puts his people through the amusing cynicisms which mark his very best work...
...difference between Germanic and Jewish psychology which have been known to exist for a long time to people of insight must no longer be disguised. This will be an advantage to science. . . ." C. G. Jung, Zentralblatt Fur Psychotherapie...
...past Jung has contributed greatly to psychology by broadening and deepening the otherwise narrow outlook of psycho-analysis. It is regrettable, however, to discover that a man of such keen psychological insight is willing to dull his scientific sensibilities through indirect association with the Nazi race theories. Jung may properly be honored for his contributions in the past if one is willing to overlook the unscientific trend of his pronouncements in the present." Gordon W. Allport
...lending psychiatry to statecraft when he asked: "In the sphere of politics and statesmanship, is it possible to make the present available knowledge of human nature of any practical effect? ... As a beginning one might arrange a special consultation service for legislators and statesmen, where they could get some insight into the problems of their own personality as an introduction to a proper understanding of their fellows...
...aware of an earnest sincerity and gripping reality which afford a pleasing diversion from the superficial grist of the Hollywood mill. Rarely does a picture of this sort, dealing as it does with an acute psychological problem, meet with success from the several standpoints of characterization, sustained interest, and insight into the foibles of human behavior...