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The whole of this issue is devoted to a number of articles which seek to evaluate the influence of psycho-analysis upon the social sciences. We can only briefly mention a few of them.
The first is an essay by Havelock Ellis, which must have been among his very last writings, on 'Freud's Influence on the Changed Attitude toward Sex.' It is chiefly of interest as exhibiting more clearly than ever Ellis's excessive ambivalence towards psycho-analysis, an attitude which he himself sums up as 'the recognition of Freud as one of the greatest masters in thought together with a radical criticism of most of the results he has reached.' Dr. Brill contributes some personal recollections on 'The Introduction and Development of Freud's Work in the United States.' The influence of psycho-analysis upon psychiatry is discussed by Dr. Jelliffe and its influence upon sociology by Dr. Zilboorg. Dr. William Healy writes upon psycho-analysis and 'behaviour problems'; Dr. Horney speculates upon the nature of neurosis; and Dr. Wittels criticizes the 'Neo-Adlerians'. Finally, Dr. Kroeber has an essay upon 'Totem and Taboo in Retrospect' in which ambivalence, though of a less extreme kind, is once more in evidence: 'we, on our part, ' he concludes, 'if I may speak for ethnologists, though remaining unconverted, have met Freud, recognize the encounter as memorable, and herewith re-salute him.'