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Dr. Bertram D. Lewin quotes me in This QUARTERLY, Volume XXIII, No. 4, p. 494, as quoting from Freud the statement, '… the wish to sleep is "biological"'. Freud did not say, and I have not quoted him as saying that the problem of sleep is biological, but as saying that it is a physiological problem. Freud stated: 'Ich hatte wenig Anlass mich mit dem Problem des Schlafes zu befassen, denn dies ist ein wesentlich physiologisches Problem …' (Die Traumdeutung. Gesammelte Werke, Vol. II-III. London: Imago Publishing Co., 1942, p. 6.) My quotation from Freud reads: 'I have had little cause to concern myself with the problem of sleep, for this is essentially a physiological problem …'. (Revival of Interest in the Dream. New York: International Universities Press, 1953, p. 108.) The misquotation is an important one inasmuch as it vitiates Dr. Lewin's subsequent argument.