SOURCE: A review of What Life Should Mean to You, in The Criterion, Vol. XI, No. XLV, July, 1932, pp. 733-35.

In the following review, Watson contrasts Adler's stress on social cooperation to the sexual theories of Freud and the metaphysics of Jung.

No statement on the meaning of life from Dr. Adler can avoid comparison with the statements of Freud and Jung, yet it seems strange that these writers should so consistently neglect each other's conclusions, and should follow exclusively, with what seems an almost compulsive energy, their own lines of thought. Dr. Jung has more than either of the others made allowance for his rivals, and, in relegating them to different types, has admitted their use and function. Dr. Adler in this last of his numerous publications [What Life Should Mean to You] seems completely satisfied with his own view, which has the undeniable advantage of standing...