This stimulating paper is an extremely interesting application of psychoanalytic theory and method to sociological research, carefully executed, and important in its results.

America having been built upon a mixture of cultures as well as of races, Americans have tended to minimize cultural-psychological differences. They have a most inadequate sense of the potential range of such differences. With a kind of easy naïvité they assume that everybody is the way they themselves are. Of course, the 'American character' itself is also historically determined. America was from the beginning the 'open continent'; here, feudal psychology had broken down. The experience of a successful revolution changed the American attitude towards the law. 'Southernism' now constitutes perhaps the most serious inconsistency in American life. In fact and symbolically, the American still wanders over the country searching for the lost frontier; pioneering experience played an important rôle in the forming