Jekel's paper Psychoanalysis and Dialectic (Psa. Rev., XXVIII, 1941, No. 2) is utilized by the authors to criticize not only the tenets of freudians who misunderstand dialectics, but also freudian theories which are in themselves undialectic. The death instinct is demonstrated as an undialectic, and an especially dangerous thesis in time of war; the concept of repetition compulsion is held

superfluous if the pleasure principle is utilized dialectically. They criticize Horney for misunderstanding the dialectic unity of biological and sociological forces and for being overly sociological. The errors of Marxists like Bartlett in their lack of comprehension of the true dialective motive of psychoanalysis also come in for attack. The paper is largely critical without much of a positive demonstration of a thesis. It contains a few unclear references to 'life instincts' and 'impulses of self-betterment' which seem to be primarily valuative concepts obscurely removed from sexuality.