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In this little book Professor Dunlap gives a sound scolding to the psychoanalysts for indulging in mysticism and being so tender minded as to be unequal to measuring up to the requirements of a scientific method. He is more specific in certain instances, accusing them of indulging in the fallacies of secundum quid and the ambiguous middle term. The Professor takes himself very seriously and under-rates the psychoanalysts and the whole psychoanalytic movement very greatly, thereby creating a tempest which rages all over the place without doing a great deal of damage. The book is interesting, somewhat facetious in places, full of misunderstandings of the psychoanalytic movement, and with a total lack of appreciation of its really profound significance. Most of the things he accuses the psychoanalysts of he convicts himself of in the course of his argument, the general result of which is to leave one with the impression that the book is a rationalization of his emotional orientation towards the Freudian movement rather than a careful intellectual examination of its tenets and a constructive criticism thereof. He has even indulged in the argumentum ad hominem when he refers to the rewards in the way of financial returns which psychoanalysis offers as if that has anything to do with the fallaciousness or the soundness of its tenets. Read the book, psychoanalysts, by all means, and know the worst!
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