By Rudolf Ekstein
Ekstein's publication brings jointly papers on a couple of subject matters that have occupied his pondering over the past forty years. within the Wiener Kreis, the Vienna circle of philosophers, he studied, with his professor Moritz Schlick, the philosophy of technology, the research of language, and the rationalization of that means. all through his existence he has consistently been encouraged via the paintings of Ludwig Wittgenstein. within the Vienna Psychoanalytic Institute his curiosity in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis was once bolstered, and he proven for himself a bridge among the type of considering that appears for philosophical explanation and that which searches for mental that means. The psychotherapeutic and psychoanalytic equipment of mental rationalization depend upon the language instruments of the pondering approach. yet those language instruments, referring now to varied theories of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy within the a number of faculties, have their usefulness in addition to their obstacles. Ekstein's chronological review permits us to reach at a philosophical and mental rationalization of current psycho-therapeutic and psychoanalytic faculties.
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Deduction is not the opposite of induction. Deduction is an ability possessed by anyone who understands the meaning of a scientific law or any other general statement. Induction is not a logical process, it is good guess work. , for induction, but it is certainly no assurance for the discovery of new scien tific laws. Scientific, creative achievement has something to do with "chance" and guessing, with gift and genius. We are quite aware of the fact that such words as gift, genius, chance, and so forth, are simply expressions for "I do not know any better," but they also indicate in this case the limita tions of scientific training, and call our attention to unsolved problems.
Freedom is a feeling, a state of mind. The feeling 38 THE LANGUAGE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY of freedom has nothing to do with the possibility of describing the cause of such a feeling of freedom. Freedom is a psychological term. We may assert that freedom consists of certain material things such as freedom from want, from oppression, and so on; but we fight for these "material" freedoms only in order to achieve for everyone the feeling, the experience of freedom. Man may be free from chains, and allowed to write and to pray, to buy and to eat, to love and to create and to do many things and still he may not feel free, and this feeling would mean that he is not free although society has given him outer freedom.
He taught us that the path travelled by the fal ling body equals the product of a certain unchangeable constant factor and the square of the time the body travelled. This can be expressed in a more mathematical form: s (spatium = way) = gl2T (tempus = time). 2 "G" stands for gravitas and means gravity of the earth. The size of this factor is not exactly constant and, as has been found out through experiment, varies according to the distance of the falling body from the earth's center of grav ity.
