Jones asks what defenses have taken the place of the original reactions of panic and anger which have largely subsided against psychoanalytic concepts. He warns us that to propagandize psychoanalysis belligerently merely stimulates 'stronger opposition'. Freud and Darwin answered their opponents simply by producing more evidence. Yet this is no longer enough when we consider the critical danger in which society finds itself 'and how far those in need of our help are from taking seriously the very existence of such help'. The original vociferous resistances have simply hardened into silent social resistances against which we are almost helpless.

Early analysts were a close-knit group, in more or less constant contact with each other, marching evenly in line. With greater diffusion, separatist tendencies