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In his introduction to the text Social Aspects of Psychoanalysis (19) Dr. Jones set the background against which to-night's lecture is projected. He wrote:
The limits bounding the field of knowledge studied by various scientific societies are often jealously drawn, and it is unfortunately not a very frequent event for such a society to show any desire to co-operate with another one. Yet the advantages of interchange of ideas among workers in neighbouring fields is undeniable, and many examples could be given of suggestions proffered by an investigator in one branch of knowledge proving exceedingly fruitful on being taken up and developed by someone whose main concern is with some other branch.
It may very well be that this exceedingly commendable attitude has led the Institute of Psycho-Analysis to establish the Ernest Jones Memorial Lectures.
Assuming this general attitude to prevail I have set for myself the task of bringing together, from several fields in which I am personally interested, information relating to behaviour under stress. If you see analogies between the phenomena I describe and phenomena with which you are more directly concerned I can only suggest it is not likely that they are purely coincidental. Some of you are already interested in the investigation of certain of these analogies. There is no doubt in my mind that development in my own branch of science, psychology, must deal with the types of phenomena with which Freud was concerned, even though psychologists may believe that general principles of behaviour should encompass infrahuman