Vienna Psychiatrist Turns Analyzing Eye on All Nations Under Depression
VIENNA, May 30.—Dr. Alfred Adler, one of the best known living psychiatrists, "psychoanalyzed" the world economic crisis in an exclusive interview with this correspondent today.
"It is obvious," Dr. Adler said, "that a crisis of such unprecedented secerity must have psychological as well as economic and financial causes and that it is up to scientists and medical men as well as politicians and bankers to cooperate towards its solution."
Dr. Adler sketched the reasons for the lack of confidence that is preventing recovery and asked himself how confidence can be improved.
"First of all," he said, "everyone must feel within himself that he is economically secure, because otherwise no stable basis for normal life exists. It is ridiculous that men should be starving on account of unemployment when machines that they might serve are going rusty through lack of use.
RICH NATIONS STARVE.
"It is equally ridiculously that countries as inherently rich as the United States should be stifled by poverty when billions of sterile gold is lying under the streets unused. Money should be employed. Men should be employed. There should be a world-wide rationalization of industry, perhaps with shorter hours and with doles. Charity should be eliminated so that every man can have a reasonable hope of earning a living."
Dr. Adler thinks that a solution of the crisis from the point of view of international relations can come through the development of the principal of "autarchy," that new capitalistic order allegedly expected to supersede the present system of many thinkers, and which is described as "complete control of a nation's economic and financial self-sufficiency raised to the highest possible degree." Autarchy is claimed to exist already in several countries, notably Russia and Italy.
NEED NEW SYSTEM.
"What we need is a system whereby each country shall produce only what it produces best," continued Dr. Adler. "Let Germany concentrate on industry and dyes, let Czechoslovakia produce beer and pigs, let Argentina and Canada devote themselves to grain, and so on. A system of international exchange could be encouraged whereby wasteful competition would be eliminated and each country benefited by exclusive devotion to that which it does best."
Dr. Adler, well known in the States, is still a Viennese citizen. He is, with Sigmund Freud and Charles G. Jung, one of the three fathers of modern psychiatry. Dr. Adler invented the famous "inferiority complex with which, he says, the whole world is now suffering.
Fuente: Oakland Tribune (Oakland, California), lunes 30 de mayo de 1932, p. 21; despacho sin firma fechado en Viena el 30 de mayo («this correspondent»), probablemente sindicado. Transcripción hecha sobre la imagen de la página (California Digital Newspaper Collection, OT19320530.1.21), cotejada con el OCR de la plataforma, muy defectuoso. Se respetan las erratas e incorrecciones del periódico: «secerity» (por «severity»), «equally ridiculously», «principal» (por «principle»), «Charles G. Jung» (por Carl Gustav Jung) y las comillas sin cerrar tras «inferiority complex». Los subtítulos de columna se dan en negrita.