ABSTRACT
This paper, in a shortened form, was first given in 1967 as one of the Winter Lectures on Psycho-Analysis to members of the general public. It was first published in the present form in 1968 in The Psychoanalytic Approach, ed. J.D.Sutherland, London: Baillière, Tindall & Cassell and was reprinted in 1972 in The Interpretation of Ritual: Essays in Honour of A.I.Richards, ed. J.S.La Fontaine, London: Tavistock Publications.
