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[EDITORIAL NOTE: We can think of no more appropriate method of honouring the memory of Sigmund Freud than by presenting our readers with a translation of one of his few unpublished writings. This work, which has been most generously placed at our disposal, was begun in July 1938, and was left unfinished. There is no indication of how far or in what direction the author had intended to continue it. Unlike the rest of the manuscript, that of the third chapter is only drawn up in the form of much abbreviated jottings in telegraphic style. These have here been filled out into complete sentences, but are otherwise unaltered. The title of Part I is derived from a fragmentary later version, made in October 1938.]
It is the aim of this brief work to bring together the doctrines of Psycho-Analysis and to state them, as it were, dogmatically—in the most concise form and in the most positive terms. It is naturally not its intention to compel belief or to establish conviction.
The teachings of Psycho-Analysis are based upon an incalculable number of observations and experiences, and no one who has not repeated those observations upon himself or upon others is in a position to arrive at an independent judgement of it.