Whyte Discusses Theory Errors in Freud and Marx

Marx and Freud both went wrong in over stressing the conflicts in human personality and society, declared Lancelot L. Whyte yesterday at a meeting of the Social Relations Society.

Whyte, one of Britain's leading psychologists, had earlier submitted the Society a list of seven topics on which he was willing to speak, and the group chose "Where Marx and Freud were Wrong."

While emphasizing the important contributions that both men had made to the knowledge of the human mind, the speaker asserted that in their theoretical aspects they did not provide for integration in the mind and in society.

Terming himself an optimist, Whyte commended the Gestalt theory of psychology, which stresses the tendency toward completion of patterns. He prophesied a movement from the science of things as they are to the science of things as they are becoming.