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In this paper Carotenuto discusses the political prescience of Freud and Jung and finds them, on the whole, wanting. Freud did not foresee the full danger from Hitler, nor his influence on the German nation; neither did he grasp the true significance of the Bolshevik Revolution. Jung failed to make the all-important distinction between Communism and Stalinism. In fact—says Carotenuto—neither of them understood the real meaning of political economy.
The occasion for these arguable statements is consideration of an interview entitled ‘Diagnosis of dictatorship’ given by Jung to H. R. Knickerbocker, published in Hearst's International-Cosmopolitan in January 1939 and reprinted in this number of the Giomale Storico di Psicologia Dinamica. Carotenuto is very caustic about Mr Knickerbocker, maintaining that, knowingly or not, he attributed some of his own views to Jung since many of the latter's replies are uncharacteristic and lack his well-known sense of humour. Serious though these distortions are, Carotenuto finds them unimportant compared with those in Glover's book ‘Freud or Jung?’, which he takes this opportunity to castigate. He exemplifies Glover's anti-Jung bias and that of his assistant, Miss Gedds, who was apparently responsible for the quotations—by citing a Jung statement in the Knickerbocker interview on the Lebensraum question alongside the tendentiously edited version of it in Glover. Since, as Carotenuto points out, Glover's book