The author states that intellectual process is basically a matter of making comparisons or analogies, citing Freud, Cassirer, Kubie, and others. He compares the mind to television scanning in the electron tube and refers to an organic built-in mechanism that is capable of doing this comparative scanning. Intelligence, then, is the ability to perceive successive analogies, as is free association and Freud's 'predicate thinking'. Haskell's view is that the various systems of psychoanalysis formulated by the early analysts who split off from Freud differed only in analogic content variations. This seems oversimplified. He