Gedo covers a rather large area in an attempt to show that psychoanalysis has much to offer the humanities. He uses five areas in which to prove his points: 1) biographical studies of one life; 2) fictional characters, in whom a richness of traits is often focused in one individual; 3) aesthetics and creativity (perhaps the most difficult part of this article because of the multiplicity of factors involved); 4) psychohistory, an area to which he feels that Waelder has probably made the most substantial contribution; and 5) moral philosophy. Among the reasons that psychoanalysis has made great contributions to the humanities are: its love of truth and rationality, its demands for detachment, disinterestedness, and hard work, its curiosity, and its dedication to humility. Gedo concludes that "it is by means of these ideals above all that psychoanalysis has reintroduced the humanist outlook into the realm of science." His thesis is well documented through the sensitivity with which he studies the outlined areas.