. Alienist and neurologist. . he movement, who had for a time beenswept along by the hurricane, eventually realized that they had lost their footholdin reality and so we find two off-shoots of the original Freudian school; one, headedby Jung and the other by Adler. Both of these men endeavored to broaden outthe Freudian viewpoints, but, unfortunately, they, too, fell into the same trap ofuncritical thinking, and applied the same methods to their modified views. In truth,each of these writers built up what may properly be called systems. Systems ofthought, to be sure, are not necessarily non de
. Alienist and neurologist. . he movement, who had for a time beenswept along by the hurricane, eventually realized that they had lost their footholdin reality and so we find two off-shoots of the original Freudian school; one, headedby Jung and the other by Adler. Both of these men endeavored to broaden outthe Freudian viewpoints, but, unfortunately, they, too, fell into the same trap ofuncritical thinking, and applied the same methods to their modified views. In truth,each of these writers built up what may properly be called systems. Systems ofthought, to be sure, are not necessarily non desideratum. Where such systems are basedon fact, on truth, all of us should be willing to follow their teachings. But wherethe. system is false, where the premises are at fault, where the thinking is based onhasty assumption, then we are being led up blind alleys. Now, we know full well that with the advent and spread of Freudism and its off-shoots there was a distinct danger that such thinking might get too many psychopathol-. Page Two Hundred Sixty-One THE ALIENIST AND NEUROLOGIST ogists in its grip and hold them bound for too long a time. The break in the Freu-dian column, however, has done much to bring about a collapse of the extreme wingof these advancing phalanxes. Jung and Adler have done the Freudian movementa good and worthy service. They have stirred up the spirit of free, independent andmore critical thinking. They have given a death blow to the religiously orthodoxthinking of the Freudians themselves. The adherents of the original Freudian movement cannot deny, as matters standnow, that there may have been some truth in the criticisms of those who were notavowed Freudians. Here, then, is an invitation to all Freudians to carefully cUidcritically examine their premises and foundations and to face the facts as they are. It means that the terms they have employed, the concepts they have supported,the conclusions they have arrived at may be reviewed by them in a more ju
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