ABSTRACT

HAVING traced the unconscious by the aid of analysis to its subterranean lair, we will now with true sportsman's zeal, examine the valuable savage at closer range. In this, we should not allow ourselves to be influenced by any preconceived opinion. He is a miserable hunter who would allow his quarry to be run to earth by a forester, beforehand, and afterward complain that he should have come skillfully to his object! Fortunately, not only has Freud constantly and fundamentally changed his views concerning our object, but there prevails among his followers a multitude of different opinions. This occasions the lively opposition of the critics. Hence, one cannot avoid the tedious developing of one's own judgment.