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Personality is an achievement. Self realization the final achievement.

In the communist ideology there's a vision of brotherhood.

Freud (Jew) and Jung were proscribed by the Nazis; they could never acknowledge the supremacy of the state.

"Where the state is exalted to the supreme value, the individual is no longer important in his own right but only insofar as he serves the state"; in Samuel Butler's time disease was punished.

Chapter 1

Self-Realization

[it's equivalent to developing one's own personality]

Neurosis affects not only the sufferer but all thse involved [emotionally] with him/her

-The Heisenberg principle shows that Science is an actor as well; the method cannot be separated from the object

-free-will must be admitted by the psychotherapist; beyond experience, W. Pauli calls the attention for "intuition" and "attention direction", thus the role of "subjectivity"

-better than the school espoused [Kleinians and Freudians have different results in therapy] is the analytical attitude,

Thus the therapist must BE AWARE about these assumptions. Scientists (like novelists and poets) have visions of the universe.

-a hypothesis is different from a belief, and delusion

-the Physical Sciences from 17th through the 18th century thought Nature was fit for a causal model:THE EXTERNAL WORLD WAS UNAFFECTED BY THE OBSERVER; however, with the Heisenberg principle of UNCERTAINTY it became clear for example in the case of small particle [say, the electron], it was hard to determine its velocity and position...

Notes from the Introduction

-in the fight against fanaticism, Philosophy isn't enough....

-the psycho-therapeutic situation is never objective; there are assumptions made by the psychotherapist, his point of view; he must deal with the "whole man"; he works with concepts, say, the Oedipus complex.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2001...

Bio stuff:

This book by Storr was first published in 1960.

He studied medicine at Winchester and Christ's College. By 1944 he became a doctor. He got trained as an analyst at a Jung's school.