first edition
1929 · Schwerin im Mecklenburg
by KÜNKEL, Fritz
Schwerin im Mecklenburg: Friedrich Bahn, 1929. First Edition. Octavo (22cm). Original printed yellow wrappers, lettered in red and black on spine and front cover; 163pp +[5]p publisher's catalog. Covers unevenly dusted and slightly foxed; internally clean, tight and unmarked; about Very Good. A widely-read work by Künkel (1889-1956), a prominent early Adlerian psychologist and formulator of the school of "we-psychology," based on a synthesis of Freud, Adler and Jung and grounded in purely religious thought. Kunkel entered full-time practice in Berlin in 1924; openly supported Hitler and the Nazis in the first years of the Reich, but did not share Hitler's anti-Semitism and ended fleeing Germany for the United States in 1939. (Inventory #: 37736)