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The author of this excellent work very modestly sets forth no claim for originality, and in the sense in which he means it this is probably true. The work is really a compilation and an orderly arrangement of the findings of the psychoanalytic school on the subject in question. The author, however, is responsible for the collection of the material, for its arrangement and for its presentation, to say nothing of the appreciation of the desirability of this work, all of which are distinctly personal contributions and original in the proper sense of that term. He has done his work well and presented the reader with a gradual unfolding of his subject in a style at once clear and interesting. The reviewer believes that it would be decidedly a worth while effort at this time to correlate the work of the psychoanalytic school with reference to other subjects and present them in a similar way.
Briefly the book attempts to set forth the primitive emotions in their relation to the family, the origin of conflict in the family situation, the relation of the family to the life task of the individual and to the growth of the individual personality. It discusses in detail the abnormalities and varieties of development as they relate both to love and hate, and to the dependence aspects of the situation. There is an interesting chapter on ideas of birth and pre-natal life, and one on the psychology of initiation and initiation rites. From this point the author goes on to the discussion of the development of parent substitutes, the family influences in the development of the love life, the social environment and religion, the attitude of parents to children, and the origin and development of the family tendencies, including the hate and love aspects and the repression of love. He concludes with two chapters on ethical and practical applications of the love and hate aspects and of the dependence aspects.
From the above summary of the contents it can be seen that the author undertakes to