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This is a paper which deals interestingly, though of necessity somewhat superficially, with a large range of problems connected with emotion. The author defines emotion as 'the subjective experience which develops when gratification of the instinctive impulse is held in check by higher level control'. Emotion is thus for him opposed to 'interest', which he regards as 'the affective tone which accompanies the whole instinctive process when it is carried through in a normally satisfying manner'. Dr. Carver's opinion concerning the generation of emotion (which, we may note in passing, seems to have been adopted—apparently quite independently—by Dr. Drever) thus differs in important respects from the widely-held view of McDougall. It nevertheless appears to have much to recommend it and is worthy of serious attention from the psycho-analytic point of view; in particular, it would appear, at a first glance at any rate, to fit in well with some of Freud's recent 'metapsychological' considerations. Repression, (and therefore also dissociation) the author goes on to show, is an attempt to abolish the disagreeable tension resulting from an accumulation of emotional energy. But repression is rarely quite successful; hence the occurrence of displacement (including neurosis on the one hand and sublimation on the other). An attempt is made to link up these views with the physiological and anatomical conceptions arising from the work of Sherrington, Head, Cannon and others.