Volume 25, Number 20 · December 21, 1978
The Piaget Way
By Rosemary Dinnage
OTHER BOOKS DISCUSSED IN THIS ESSAY
The Essential Piaget
edited by Howard E. Gruber, edited by J. Jacques Vonèche
Basic Books, 881 pp., $35.00
The Origins of Intelligence in Children
by Jean Piaget, translated by Margaret Cook
International Universities Press, 419 pp., $4.95 (paper)
The Construction of Reality in the Child
by Jean Piaget, translated by Margaret Cook
Basic Books, 386 pp., $11.95
Play, Dreams and Imitation in Childhood
by Jean Piaget, translated by C. Gattegno, by F.M. Hodgson
Norton, 296 pp., $3.95 (paper)
Behavior and Evolution
by Jean Piaget, translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith
Pantheon, 176 pp., $2.95 (paper)
Jean Piaget: The Man and His Ideas
by Richard I. Evans, translated by Eleanor Duckworth
Dutton, 214 pp., $8.95
Jean Piaget: Psychologist of the Real
by Brian Rotman
Harvester Press (London), 200 pp., £7.95
Children's Minds
by Margaret Donaldson
Fontana, 156 pp., £1.00 (paper)
In a series of interviews with Jean Piaget carried out a few years ago, Piaget was asked about his attitude to Freud and psychoanalysis. [1] In 1922, he said, he had read a paper on children's thought to the International Congress of Psychoanalysis (not included in The Essential Piaget, although there is a creditable summary of psychoanalytic theories that Piaget published in 1920). Freud had been present, surrounded by disciples and smoking his usual cigars, and all eyes had been on the master's reactions to the paper rather than on the young psychologist presenting his work. It is rather a delightful picture, and spiced with more irony than Piaget has usually allowed himself in talking about psychoanalysis, toward which he is usually polite and rather uneasy. Two great system-builders of psychology were confronting each other—though it is only in the past ten years or so that it has seemed appropriate to place Piaget's monumental oeuvre, so radically different, next to Freud's.
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