MORENO'S "INTERPERSONAL THERAPY, GROUP THERAPY AND THE FUNCTION OF THE UNCONSCIOUS"- A DISCUSSION

Abstract

Approximately a half-century has passed since Freud arrived at the construct "unconscious" to better explain behavioral phenomena. Through the years his clinical observations have endured; however, the unconscious as an entity, a storage place for all repressed material, has all but disappeared as an explanatory concept. Dr. Moreno is entirely justified in leveling criticism at the constructs of conscious, pre-conscious and uncon- scious, and is quite correct in his appeal for "clarification of terms, con- cepts, operations and common aims". et I cannot help but have the vague impression that Dr. Moreno is inadvertently throwing out the baby with the bath. The system of insights should not disappear with the entity. This, I am certain, is not the intention so I would like to start my discussion with the entity down the drain and the babe safely in arm. If you will be considerate enough' to permit another point in extension of this analogy, I would like to add that this baby has been buffeted from pillar to post in various home-placements. Especially traumatic were those of Freud, Adler and Jung, where different languages were spoken and incon- sistencies glaring