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The failure of psychoanalysis to make headway with sociology may be explained by the psychoanalytic overemphasis of sexual motivations, a predisposition against absolute explanations, the questionable technique of psychoanalysis, the rise of rival schools, the lack of integration with previous studies and quite a number of other points. In the writer's opinion, Freud's most valuable contributions to sociology are: establishment of the unconscious, emphasis on wish fulfilment, analysis of dynamic trends in the personality.