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This is practically a review of McDougall's recent book on Psycho-Analysis and Social Psychology. The author agrees with McDougall's criticism that psycho-analytic theory, in spite of the changes it has undergone at Freud's hands, is still far from being clear and satisfactory. He also agrees that Freud himself, through the recognition of separate instincts of aggression and fear, has in some respects approximated to McDougall's own position. He points out, however, that McDougall, in spite of his expressed admiration for certain aspects of psycho-analysis—especially its applicability to social phenomena—has failed to realize the true value of the light that psycho-analysis has thrown upon the complexities of human life (e.g. the intimate and peculiar relationship between sex and fear, the intricate and varied nature of sexual impulses, the facts corresponding to such concepts as conflict, condensation, Pleasure Principle) and has also in certain cases under-estimated the degree of real correspondence which exists between his own views and those of Freud (e.g. the common elements between 'sentiments' and 'complexes' or between the self-regarding sentiment and the super-ego).
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