[269] for its OWN period, because at that time the great progress of natural science pushed aside any attempt of ideas like gestalt,^a ideas like unconscious strivings. It was at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century that not only metaphysical but also exact-scientific rediscovery of the unconscious took place, namely in something which I dislike to call "psychoanalysis^b," because that limits the great event to special schools and special methods, but which I very much prefer to call with a word which is not so good English but very characteristic for the reality: "depth psychology^c." The depth-psychological movement of which Freud ^dwas the beginner, but not the only representative---nor was the Freudian school the only school---and if you look back now at the last 55 years already, then you will find that the decisive thing about it is not a special scientific insight---they have changed, like all special scientific insights ALWAYS must change---but it was a transformation of the intellectual climate with respect to man's understanding of himself. Perhaps this is less obvious for you who grew up in this new climate than for those of my age who still remember the 19th century in the larger sense of the word, which ended only in the year 1914, with the beginning of the First World War. For us it is not only a BOOK knowledge that the climate of man's self-interpretation of himself has fundamentally changed, but it is a personal experience, from year to year; and out of THIS experience, l am valuating this event