From psychology to music
CHRISTOPHER WINTLE traces the indebtedness of the eminent emigre critic to the father of psychoanalysis
IT IS OFTEN ASKED, what has music to do with psychology - or more particularly with psychoanalysis, its Freudian branch? One of the earliest and most trenchant answers came in 1922 from Carl Jung, father of analytical psychology and a notable Freudian apostate. Basically, his reply was, 'very little'. Only that aspect of art,' he wrote, 'which consists in the process of artistic creation can be a subject of psychological study, but not that which constitutes its essential nature.'1 The 'process of artistic creation' could be observed in two kinds …