ABSTRACT
In his comparative study of Freud and Dewey on human nature, Morton Levitt cites a personal communication from Sidney Hook in which Hook discusses Dewey’s attitude toward the work of Freud. Hook notes that he and his mentor found themselves in agreement that the Freudian architectonic of the human psyche, with its mental compartmentalizations and reifications, was, in essence, “mythology.” 1 However, Hook also emphasizes the fact that Dewey repeatedly insisted upon Freud’s gift for making close observations of human behavior. Once, when Hook suggested that Freud would have made a wonderful novelist, Dewey agreed.
