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Prince discusses psycho-analysis, quite correctly, from the three aspects of (1) a method of examination, (2) a body of doctrine, and (3) a method of therapeutics.
1As a method of examination it is, when used in conjunction with other methods, useful in the discovery of particular facts and causes, but unreliable in determining the laws and mechanisms of the mind.
2Two principles, for which we are indebted to the genius of Freud, are contributions of the highest importance. These are the doctrine of repression and of conflict. Beyond this, however, Prince accepts nothing of psycho-analytic doctrine. He thinks that most conflicts are not sexual, and holds that there are no unconscious mental processes except those that have once been conscious. He thinks that there are many processes in the subconscious that do not possess the attributes described by analysts as characteristic of the unconscious. (This is of course so, because we are speaking of two different regions of the mind).