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A very good psychology of the old-fashioned orthodox sort, brought up to date in the various departments, but like such psychologies lacking an adequate appreciation of the affective life and failing to grasp the full significance of the hypothesis of the unconscious. Professor Dunlap, as is well known, is a violent antagonist of psychoanalysis and therefore has perhaps been prevented from getting from the psychoanalytic point of view those far reaching genetic concepts which are becoming so valuable to psychology and which the psychoanalysts have seen the importance of more than any one else. Many of the specific ideas of the psychoanalysts which Prof. Dunlap rails against in his other works might be put aside and yet these genetic concepts retained, but it would seem that Professor Dunlap has thrown out the child with the water. For the orthodox academic psychologist and for the individual who is looking for specific information in this department of learning, the book will be of value. In fact the reviewer thinks that it is as short-sighted and prejudiced to throw aside the work of academic psychology as it is for the academic psychologist to throw aside the work of the psychoanalyst. Academic psychology presents us with a large body of facts, many of which the reviewer believes will prove of very much greater significance when a wider understanding can be had of them from the psychoanalytic point of view. In any case, as facts they constitute a part of the world of reality and Professor Dunlap has dealt with this aspect of reality very effectively from his point of view.
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