Repeatedly the narrator in The Chosen asks Danny how he can come to terms with Freud’s anti-religious view of the nature of man. And Danny Saunders does not respond. For him, psychoanalysis is a tool for research and healing. He will not use the Freudian system as a statement about the nature of man. For that, he will go to his native world, the culture of Hasidic Judaism. This method of handling an antagonistic system of thought is culture compartmentalization.
