ABSTRACT
Of course, i t was generous of Freud to even acknowledge this unsolicited manuscript, and one might suppose that any excuse for not reading i t would have served h im. But he was a man of extraordinary honesty and would not have said what he believed to be wrong. Surely he felt that he really lacked all talent-and patience-for the k i n d of philosophy that was cultivated at the universities; and that feeling was shared by Goethe and Nietzsche, as w e l l as Lessing, Heine, and Kafka.
