ABSTRACT

In the last chapter I made two criticisms of Freud. I criticized his tendency to reduce the moral and spiritual to the psychological, and his reluctance to recognize a form of psychology in which determinism reaches a limit beyond which it no longer holds. In such a psychology, I argued, psychology is at one with morality in that it enables a person to turn away from being centred on himself, his ego, and in doing so come to a mode of being in which he is himself. I argued that in his theoretical thinking Freud cannot credit a spiritual morality with any authenticity. In his theoretical thinking, at least, he thinks that an individual cannot be fully authentic since his behaviour is always subject to his unconscious need.