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In this concise and informative monograph on the philosophy of science as applied to psychoanalysis, Nigel Mackay takes up the currently unpopular thesis that psychoanalysis is a science. Arguing that psychoanalysis is above all a theory of motivation, he presents a distilled, cogent reading of Freudian psychology and its underlying principles. Psychoanalytic theory is viewed as a complex set of constructs that function similarly to postulations of inferential processes and entities in natural science. In this respect, Mackay takes