This work by one of Freud's followers is an attempt to pick up from the rapidly growing psychoanalytic literature the connecting thread that runs through, and present the story of psychoanalysis in a consistent and coherent story. To that end the author has chapters upon the unconscious, the dream, the neuroses, etc.

It is very fortunate that in this first attempt to present the Freudian theories in a single work the task should have fallen to one so well equipped to do it. Hitschmann not only knows his psychoanalysis but he is able to present it in a readable, easily understandable way. The translation by Payne transfers all of its good qualities from the original into English. The book is to be highly recommended for beginners in psychoanalysis.

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