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This is a collection of twelve essays by different authors dedicated to the memory of Ernest Jones who taught at Toronto University for four years and brought psychoanalysis to Canada. No overall theme connects the various contributions nor are all equally interesting to psychologists. Charles Hanly interprets Parmenides’ philosophical poem and makes cautious use of some psychological insights. Lewis S. Feuer discusses the psychological roots of Kant's philosophy. For instance, he shows that Kant disliked sensations of any kind and he believes this dislike led to Kant's teaching that the ‘thing in itself’ is inaccessible. Kant's unease about emotions and sex motivated his search for the inevitable categorical order of experience. The categorical imperative as a purely logical basis of morals avoided grounding ethics on emotions or psychological considerations.
Ben-Ami Scharfstein and Mortimer Ostow also question why philosophers feel the need to philosophise, and discuss particularly the seventeenth and eighteenth century philosophers and those of this century. In contrast to Feuer they use also post-Freudian interpretations to answer this question and they rightly emphasize that the validity of