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After giving a clear description of Freud's views on the transference phenomenon, the author states: 'Although not agreeing with the view of Freud that human behavior depends ultimately on the biological sexual drives, I believe that it would be a mistake to deny the value and importance of his formulations regarding transference phenomena.' Dr. Rioch's disagreements with Freud's opinions do not become very clear; in any case they are based on false suppositions. For instance, the author says: 'The therapeutic aim in this process is not to uncover childhood memories which will then lend themselves to analytic interpretation. Here, I think, is an important difference to Freud's view.' She obviously implies that Freud's idea of psychoanalysis was a kind of hunting for lost childhood memories per se. In this way it is easy (1) to 'disagree' with Freud, (2) to 'improve' and 'correct' his hypotheses. Another example, in the last paragraph of her paper, may be quoted: 'The process of analysis however, as an interpersonal experience, has a definite end. That end is achieved when the patient has rediscovered his own self as an actively and independently functioning entity.' The implication here is that Freud did not know what he was talking about when he discussed Analysis, Terminable or Interminable.