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In a review of articles on music, starting from 1917, Sterba shows how they reflect the sequence of ideas which have dominated psychoanalytic thinking. He finds consensus that music 'reaches back to a period of development previous to the establishment of ego boundaries and the separation of inside and outside world' and yet is organized by the 'highest synthetic functions of the ego'.