This little book claims to be an outline of psycho-analysis, but the author does not seem to understand that psycho-analysis is a special method which was instituted by Freud for probing into the unconscious of his patients.

Thus, to quote from one chapter, 'By blending the conceptions of the various exponents of the new Psychology we will now attempt to obtain some idea of those forces which in conflict with themselves and outside repressions provide material for the neuroses'. This is the essence of his attitude to the subject. Hence his description is one which is made up