To place Freud in the main current of Western thought, as L. L. Whyte intends, would indeed be a great service to the history of ideas. There is no question but that psychoanalysis evolved in a psychosocial continuum, a fact of which Freud himself was more aware than the author supposes. But then the latter knows very little about Freud, which distinctly handicaps his project. It is somewhat wearisome to find, even in this era, that 'learned' evaluations of psychoanalysis are based on the same clichés that the conscientious reader of the General Introductory Lectures would have refuted forty years ago. Thus, analysis is supposed to be distinguished by an 'explicit and narrow emphasis on sexuality'. Freud 'was not seriously interested in the universal, the historical, and the normal' and did not inquire into the totality of mental functioning. Essentially he was a 'pseudoscientist' whose endeavor to make the unconscious conscious