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Dr. Ernest Jones, der Gründer der British Psychoanalytical Society und derzeit Präsident der Internationalen Psychoanalytischen Vereinigung hat im britischen Rundfunk einige Vorträge über Grundprobleme der Psychoanalyse gehalten; es hat auch eine Rundfunkdiskussion zwischen Jones und dem Professor der Psychologie Dr. Cyril Burt stattgefunden (in deutscher Übersetzung wiedergegeben in der Zeitschrift „Psychoanalytische Bewegung“, Jahrg. V, ). Diese Vorträge erscheinen in einem vom Verlage George Allen de Unwin, London, gegenwärtig vorbereiteten Buche „How the mind works“, Mit Zustimmung dieses Verlages gelangt hier einer der Vorträge in englischer Sprache zum Abdruck.
Those people who are interested only in material things are not likely to have much patience for the study of the very opposite. And what could be less material, less tangible, than dreams? So much so that one may well ask whether it is worth the trouble to study them at all. Would it not be better to dismiss them altogether, just as many practically minded people dismiss all kinds of what they would call spook-hunting?
Here at the start we strike the first point of interest in connection with dreams. It is, I think, easy to observe that they produce two opposite responses in people. Some people have what they feel is a healthy contempt for dream-life; they never give it a thought, and, if asked their opinion, would declare dreams to be mere nonsense, the disordered product of a tired brain, as obviously meaningless as the wildest ravings of a lunatic. Perhaps this last analogy