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The author tells us he has no new psychology to offer. He would but emphasize but one side or one level of the personality (Seelenlebens) which to him has not received enough attention. In short it is the social—the we—aspect of the mental processes that are here concerned.
Somewhat like Adler, his former master, external environmental contacts, rather than internal instinctive mechanisms come for comment and we find a reiteration of the Adlerian viewpoints. To us an interesting brochure, which deals in the phrases of his master with identification processes at a more superficial level than one is accustomed to when the more fundamental freudian mechanisms relative to the phenomena involved are studied.
In popular phraseology one might almost speak of this group of workers as the ‘columnists’ of psychology. Easy to grasp, superficial hence popular. A lot of chaff to strain with some solid wheat to be obtained.
To us “Man is still the measure of all things”. He gets out of his environment, with which his mnemic inheritance (collective unconscious if one prefers a different phrasing) has been in contact for eons, just what his repressing mechanisms permit, and the ‘Wir’, to us, are but the