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The delegates unanimously echoed another of Jung's main arguments: To Freudians, they contended, the goal of analytical psychiatry is complete rationality for the patient, so that if fully cured, he will understand all his drives and have no repressions. To Jungians this is a false goal, and as bad as'a false god. Said Zurich's Dr. Adolf Guggen-biihl: "Man is basically nonrational; he has too many basic, instinctual drives ever to become wholly rational or logical, and medicine must help him to accept this fact." To Jung & Co., the latter-day worship of rationality has its roots in the scientism that gave birth to both the world of technology and the cultural need to venerate rationalism.
Analyze the Healthy. Is there room in such a world for Jungian contemplation, introversion and mysticism? The progressives at Zurich last week were confident that the answer is yes. Their reasoning: the very trends in modern society of which they disapprove increase society's need for analytical help. They foresee a day when mental hospital beds will be reserved for only the most serious, immobilized cases, but the numbers of people undergoing analytic treatment will multiply tremendously. As Practitioner Westman put it: "In the future we shall be analyzing the supposedly healthy people who are walking around today, as well as the obviously disturbed ones. We hope to reach the point where we shall use psychology before a breakdown has occurred." But he did not see the analyst as a god. Said he: "Analysts are human, wear pants and go to the toilet like everybody else. Naturally, they will have to be analyzed more and more to understand their own problems."