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Jones, E. Theory and Practice in Psychoanalysis.—In this introduction to papers of Alexander, Rado, and Sachs at the Salzburg Congress in 1924 the author would put forward certain defining principles, one with reference to causal factors, the other concerning therapy. Heredity, familial or recent, and phylogenetic, or remote and ontogenetic factors are mentioned. The ontogenetic factors may be congenital, infantile, and current. Of all of these only the last two may be said to have historic value in consciousness; the others are prehistorical and hence to be reconstructed by inferences, varying in their probability pari passu with chronology. For convenience Jones would classify the material as infantile (constitutional infantile and post-infantile factors). In pre-Freudian times etiological conceptions were limited to the first five of these factors. Freud introduced the important infantile factors. Here the “Oedipus complex” enters into the focus of attention, heretofore unrecognized, and still stoutly resisted in favor of other factors, illustrated within the analytic camp itself, such as Jung's emphasis upon phylogenetic “inferences” as opposed to ontogenetic “observations.” Jones speaks of Freud's care in not having run away with his discovery of the importance of infantile factors in etiology. In regard to therapeutic practice this short paper first deals with the repetition compulsion as of prime importance. Reproduction of infantile experiences tend to come up in action and feeli