There is an important margin of overlap in the æsthetic and the neurotic, in that the act of both the poet and the neurotic are symbolic acts. This is the main idea of the paper which is characterized by some most striking formulations as for instance (p. 391) Freud 'had perfected a method for being frank' and honest. 'Yet tho honesty is, in Freud, methodologically made easier, it is by no means honesty made easy'; and in another place (p. 401) 'The Darwinian ancestry (locating the individual in his feudal line of descent from the ape) is matched in Freud by a still more striking causal ancestry that we might sloganize as the "child is father to the man"'. To the Marxists the author objects to (p. 416) 'resenting him as an irrationalist, for there is nothing more rational than the systematic recognition of irrational and nonrational factors'.