Also worth noting, in the context of Balthasars (Hans Urs von Balthasar) perambulations as a young man im deutschen Sprachraum is the influence upon him of Rudolf Allers, a fellow-citizen and erstwhile pupil of Freud in the Vienna of the 1920s, a convert to Catholicism whose journey from Freudian reductionism, where the self is not much more than a bundle of instinctual drives, to a Christian psychotherapy where primacy is given to interpersonal love as the proper medium of human existence, was assisted by his studies of mediaeval philosophy and theology. In 1923, while being a student at Vienna, Balthasar met Dr. Rudolf Allers. This learned physician, translator of Saint Anselmus and of Saint Thomas Aquinas, transmitted his love for Theology to the young Balthasar, with whom he shared also a passion for music, among others for Mahler. Aidan Nichols, O.P amazon/Whats-Wrong-Freud-Psychoanalysis-Originally/dp/1447426320/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1382311989&sr=1-5&keywords=rudolf+allers rudolfallers.info/
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