ABSTRACT

If the reader has closely followed the preceding chapters, he may complain, on having finished them, that certain of the items set forth in the discussion of theory were not brought out concretely by the two case reports which have been given. These cases did not, for instance, demonstrate the infantile factors to be as important as perhaps he had been led to expect, nor did they show beyond all peradventure the neurosis to be the negative of the perversion. The matter of transference, though it came up, apparently did not play the dominant rôle which the reader might have been prepared to find it occupying.