It was to be expected that the artist especially would take kindly to psychoanalysis, this new, so variously fruitful way of looking at things. Very many might have interested themselves in psychoanalysis as neurotics, to be sure. But beyond that, the artist was more inclined and prepared to become involved with a psychology placed on entirely new foundations than with the official science. The artist is always more easily won over to the highly gifted radical than is the professor.

For the individual artist then, to the extent to which he was not content with the issue as a new theme for discussion to be taken into the coffee house, there quickly arose the effort to learn as an artist