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This article represents a condensation of the final chapter of Dunlap's book, Personal Adjustment, Maladjustment and Readjustment. The discovery is imparted that there is nothing in Freud's system which had not appeared in superstitions which were common several centuries before the beginning of the Christian era. Dunlap's conceptions can be illustrated by his description of the unconscious as he believes Freud outlined it: 'Desires and ideas are conceived as entities, which can be filed away, like letters in a filing case, and brought out later for examination'. 'Repressed desires', it appears, are merely a superstition on a par with devil worship in the Middle Ages—hence the assertion that the freudian theory is merely a repetition of ancient superstitions. To quote the author, 'The concepts of the "unconscious", of the libido and of the devilish "complexes" are concepts of supernatural forces, and belief in these concepts is superstition'. Dunlap sees psychoanalysis as medieval witchcraft dressed in modern clothes. Modern witch hunters are evidently not lacking.