You do not currently have permission to view the full text for this document. Please sign in to an account with an active subscription or contact support.
This is the third edition of Jones' very popular and useful collection of papers on psychoanalysis. “In the present edition five chapters of the previous one have been omitted and five new ones added, the rest being revised in accordance with the rapidly increasing knowledge of the subject.”
The five chapters of the second edition which have been omitted are as follows: Chapter XI: Dream Manipulations of Numbers; Chapter XX: Professor Janet on Psycho-Analysis: A Rejoinder; Chapter XXV: The Mental Characteristics of Chronic Epilepsy; Chapter XXVI: The Inter-Relations of the Biogenetic Psychoses; and Chapter XXXIV: Psycho-Analysis and Education. The chapters which have been added in the third edition are as follows: Chapter IV: Recent Advances in Psycho-Analysis; Chapter XII: Persons in Dreams Disguised as Themselves; Chapter XXI: The Nature of Auto-Suggestion; Chapter XXXIII: Cold, Disease, and Birth; and Chapter XXXVII: Some Problems of Adolescence. Of this latter the first, third and fifth noted are of especial interest. In his chapter on the “Recent Advances in Psycho-Analysis” there is a consideration of much new material which very largely has up to the present writing not found its way into the current literature and yet is of great significance and importance. As the author says in his preface, “Since the date of the last edition (1918) the center of interest in psycho-analytic research has been shifted from the nature of repressed