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Hull, H.R. (1917). The Long Handicap. Psychoanal. Rev., 4:434-442.

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(1917). Psychoanalytic Review, 4:434-442

The Long Handicap

Helen R. Hull

Into the vocabulary for the interpretation of human conduct have come certain significant phrases. Many of them had their origin in the study of abnormal psychology. The transference of the terminology—defence-mechanism, complex, repression—with the ideas, the attitude, the method of analysis from which the captions arose, marks the first great stride into the mysterious region of man's psychical nature. Scientists are slow to accept “psychoanalysis “; they scoff at the interpretation of dreams, and point out the weakness in the reasoning by analogy which characterizes Jung's development of the Œdipus-theory.

The very psychologist who scoffs does, however, employ in his analysis of conduct these phrases: defence-mechanism, conflict, repression. Education is giving slow credence to the contribution of the new method to the problem of child-training. Criminal science has begun to explain aborted citizens in these terms of repression. Holt, in The Freudian W

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