ABSTRACT
The elements are functions of the personality. Of them all it may be said that each is a function of something else and each has a function. In so far as each is a function the term ‘function’ has a meaning similar to that with which it is associated in mathematics. In this chapter, the author proposes that the elements of psychoanalysis are all without exception functions using the term in the sense the author have just adumbrated. As a criterion for what constitutes a sensible experience the author proposes common sense in the meaning that he have given it elsewhere, namely some ‘sense’ that is common to more than one sense. The correlation thus established entitles one to claim the term ‘common sense’ to characterize one’s view that the given object is a stone.
