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This paper consists of two parts, the first being 'The Freudian Mechanisms and The Conditioned Reflex', the second 'The Child's Unconscious Mind'.
These articles are in general a criticism of various Freudian mechanisms which the author considers can be explained on his 'Conditioned Reflex' idea. (The author has written on this idea in the same Journal, February, 1920.)
The author's idea that psycho-analysis has been practised by the Catholic Church for twenty centuries (page 351) leads one to think that his knowledge of psycho-analysis must be of a very rudimentary character. Such a statement also gives the impression that there is an underlying motive in his articles, namely, criticism levelled at the Catholic Church.
In his conclusion of the examination of the Freudian psychology he says, 'That the whole movement will have a far-reaching effect upon the psychology of the future is beyond question, but the effect will come