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Professor Popovic's work is the first book on psycho-analysis to be published by a Serbian author in the Serbian language. The fourteen chapters consist of lectures delivered by the author, mostly at the Kolarac University in Belgrade, but also at other centres in Belgrade, Sombor and Ljubljana. The author has refrained from criticism of any kind because (as he insists in his Preface) criticism only becomes relevant when the reader is already familiar with the subject; whereas the book is written for beginners, being designed to prepare the ground for a preliminary study of analysis. Besides, as the author explains with an engaging candour, no one has a right to criticize psycho-analysis who has not himself had a varied experience in the application of the psycho-analytic method. We see then that the book lays no claim to originality but bases itself on Freud's writings. There would, therefore, be no object in indicating its contents at any length here; instead I propose to reproduce the chapter headings, which are as follows: (1) The Life of Sigmund Freud; (2) The Concept of Psycho-Analysis; (3) The Psycho-Analytic Method and its Practical Significance; (4) Man's Sexual Instinct and Sexual Morality; (5) The Metapsychological Principles of Psycho-Analysis; (6) Psycho-Analysis on Dreams and the Occult; (7) Parapraxes and Jokes; (8) Neuroses as Disorders of Sexual Function; (9) Psycho-Analysis and