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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
46—Friday, April 12, 1968
I Psychoanalysis as an Art; Our Social Currents
Israel's Elderly Benefit
From Ma'anak Program
PSYCHOANALYSIS AS AN ART AND
A SCIENCE by Otto Rank, Hanns
Sachs, et al. Wayne State University
Press.
NEW YORK—More than 20,000
elderly newcomers to Israel have
benefited from the Ma'anak pro-
gram which this month celebrates
its 10th aniversary, it was reported
by Harald Trobe, Joint Distribution
Committee director for Israel. The
JDC is one of the three participat-
ing agencies.
The Ma'anak program, to which
funds are contributed by the JDC,
the Jewish Agency and the Israel
ministry of welfare, was estab-
lished to provide old age pensions
and financial grants to elderly
newcomers who did not work long
enough to be eligible for Israel's
social security program. It was
inaugurated to prevent the immi-
grants, who had worked all their
lives in their - countries of origin,
from being penalized because they
had immigrated to Israel.
Malben, the JDC welfare pro-
gram on behalf of aged, ill and
handicapped newcomers to Israel,
provided the initiative in getting
the program started and aided
appreciably in its planning and
administration.
A Review by DR. PETER MARTIN
- This book is a symposium based
on the authorized English transla-
tion of the Rank and Sachs classic
essay published in Vienna in 1913,
entitled "The Significance of Psy-
choanalysis for the Humanities."
Their work is a reflection of
Freud's interest in broadening the
application of psychoanalysis be-
yond therapeutic procedure to the
recognition of its relevance to
culture and the arts. The publica-
tion of this book is an indication of
an issue which has recently be-
come reanimated: that psycho-
analytic theory might have a more
fundamental bearing on the fate-
ful social currents of our day by
the examination of social and
cultural processes.
Following his discovery of free
association as a new therapy for
neurotics, Freud undertook the
writings of its metapsychology.
When Freud discovered free as-
sociation as a new therapy for
neurotics, he also discovered an
approach to the mind which went
far beyond medicine; one which
had important connections with
People won't hesitate to accept and implications for philosophy.
your word if you keep it.
Freud and his earliest followers,
among whom Rank and Sachs
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or as a natural science but as con- editor of American Imago, but he analysis; Science, Art or Bureau-
taining the potential for a systema- died shortly before the appearance cracy?"
tic psychology that is humanistic, of the first issue in 1939. The relev-
This is not an easy book to read.
i.e., that has a natural affinity with ance of this material to the book It is not a beginner's book in ap-
those disciplines which deal with being reviewed is that Psycho- plied psychoanalysis. But for those
the inner life of man and the re- analysis as an Art and a Science who are involved in the arts and
flection of that life in all its social, is a collection of essays reprinted sciences where the influences of
cultural and historical complexity. from the Spring-Summer 1964 issue psychoanalytic thinking penetrated
Richard W. Noland Writing in of American Imago.
(even if neither recognized nor
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the American Scholar idealistically
acknowledged), I can recommend
Detroit's Wayne State University it highly --respecially if it would
states a position that if psychoanal-
ysis is not to remain stunted, it Press, publisher of the book is also contribute to furthering your per-
must work towards a metapsycho- publisher of the psychoanalytic sonal growth and development into
logy of culture and all of its parts jounal which is issued quarterly. such erudite Jewish scholars as
— historical process, social insti- We can see the fine influence of gathered about Freud in their
tutions, art and religion. Such an our friend John M. Dorsey, M.D., recognition of his genius.
achievement would not only be University Professor at Wayne,
valuable theoretically as a contri- himself a psychoanalyst and for-
bution to knowledge, but might mer chairman of the Department
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matter, he would do well to read on Rank's and Sachs' essays in
Rank and Sachs essays on: The papers by Bronson Feldman, "Be-
Unconscious and Its Forms of twixt Art, Revolution and Reli
Expression, Investigation of Myths gion;" Benjamin B. Wolm a n,
and Legions, Theory of Religion, "Psychoanalysis as an Applied
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Philosophy, Ethics and Law, and and as an Art" (he is the current
Pedagogy and Characterology. editor of the American Imago fol-
There is food for thought here for lowing 17 crucial years under
every discipline and all individuals George B. Wilbur who succeeded
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Rank had been a poor young me-
chanic whom Freud encouraged
to finish high school and go to
college for a doctor's degree in
psychology. He was very erudite
and his great work on incest myth
is reflected in these essays. Sachs
was a lawyer whose intesests were
primarily literary. He was known
as having an endless stock of the
best Jewish jokes.
Rank and Sachs were great
friends and worked harmoniously
together as joint editors of the old
Imago (published in the German
language) which Freud founded in
1911. Encouraged by Freud, Sachs
brought the journal to America.
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