ABSTRACT
M. Dalbiez has made the fundamental mistake in accepting what as a philosopher he has evidently taken to be a challenge. He uses the discoveries of Freud as material for his dialectics and philosophical hair-splittings. The discoveries and consequent concepts and fundamental theories of psycho-analysis can be re-discovered and proved by the correct application of the technique, and therefore hold true despite any faults in the intellectual defence-work of their exposition. Perhaps all science, including both scientific research and applied science, must be a compromise between intellectual pleasure tendencies on the one hand and reality adjustments, such as economic adjustment, on the other. The philosopher and scientist may have grave fault to find with the foregoing prescription for complete and absolute cure of all psychogenic disorder. The biologist in particular may point out that environmental change, such as sociological improvement, though admittedly affecting the individual and causing him to acquire new and better characteristics.
