ABSTRACT
In 1941, Franklin Roosevelt named freedoms of speech and religion and from want and fear as essential to democracy. The author finds a parallel in Jung’s view that freedom in psychoanalysis is an issue resolved when its complexity is realized. He sees confusion of personal freedom with the right to restrict the expression of it by others illustrated in the tragic Tulsa Race Massacre, the type of violent irony that Roosevelt’s intuition of a balance of freedoms was devised to transcend. Franklin Roosevelt’s own connection to Jungian thought through his wife Eleanor’s friendship with Beatrice Hinkle is explored.
