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...this, young (35) Dr. Progoff, now practicing "depth psychology" in Manhattan, attempts a bold task: reconciling the often violently discordant views of modern psychology's major prophets-Sigmund Freud, Alfred Adler, Carl Gustav Jung and Otto Rank. Says Progoff: "When we make allowances for the areas where they overlap, repeat each other, or say the same thing in different words, and when we balance out the personal facts that led to undue emphasis in one direction or another, there remains a fundamental con-isistency in the development of [their] thought and practice." As Progoff sees it, Freud took...
Next came Vienna's Otto Rank, and it is with him that Author Progoff really stands...
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...
...Festspielhaus at Bayreuth in 1951. The recording has a predominantly heavy effect, partly because of foggy fidelity, and there are some sloppy attacks in the orchestra, but there are also some stunning bursts of choral sound, some impressive singing by soloists (Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Elisabeth Hongen, Hans Hopf, Otto Edelmann), and some unique French horn performances in the scherzo...
...LITERARY HERITAGE, by Van Wyck Brooks and Otto Bettmann (246 pp.; Dutton; $8.50), makes up for its uninspired text by providing a rich collection of 500 drawings and photographs that add life and interest to U.S. letters, from Ben Franklin to Robert Frost...