ABSTRACT
The form of therapy reminds us of a children’s classroom where a frank exposure of each and every child’s character to one another, to the teacher and by the teacher, is the order of the day. Perhaps it reminds us especially of an ultra-modern type of school where stress is laid on free individual self-expression and perhaps an absence of discipline—but in Schilder’s class not to the extent of co-education. Jung’s over-explaining and elaborating elaborations are reminiscent of the paraphernalia of culture which heaps more and more gratifying complications to hide the comparative simplicity of the original animal within. A few psychotherapists have constructed a whole system of theory and treatment based upon this somewhat incomplete conception. But of all the concepts and terms invented by Jung that of “complex” is easily the most important both in his system and in that of psycho-analysis, which has permanently adopted it.
