General: The President of the Psycho-Analytical Association (Ernest Jones). 'How the Mind Works, ' IX, X, XI. The Listener, November 30, December 7, December 14, 1932.

Let us start with a correct definition of the term "psycho-analysis" The original sense was simply a special method devised by Professor Freud, of Vienna, for the treatment of a certain class of nervous troubles, but the term is often very properly used to refer to the knowledge that has been gained through using that method'. This definition is followed by a description, with illustrations, of the fundamental method of 'free association', the principles upon which it is based and the new knowledge to which it has led. The author concludes by summarizing the three main discoveries that have been made by using the psycho-analytic method. 'The first is the existence of the unconscious mind, that there lies below the surface of the mind we are aware of an active and complex "unconscious" mind which greatly influences us without our ever suspecting it. The second is the process of repression, by which much of our mind is kept away from our conscious knowledge by definite forces. And the third is that the unconscious mind, with all its conflicts, dates from childhood, at a time when sexual impulses play an unsuspected part in the early development of the mind.