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Psychoanalysis is still near its beginning. Psychoanalysts differ in the extent to which they understand and have outgrown their own conflicts of erotic impulse. Consequently they do not show the same degree of accuracy in their psychologic observation. They also have a varying quantity, variety, and complexity of experiential and cultural acquisitions. According to their varying limitations and psychologic imperatives, they make such coordinations of their differing past experiences and present data as produces some differing results. Accordingly, no one else should be held responsible for such opinions as are herein expressed.
Popular books on psychoanalysis never deal with its differential essence, as thorough Freudians understand that. The real thing does not lend itself to popular discussion. Even to an educated audience, the difficulties of presenting psychoanalysis by means of lectures or essays, are quite insurmountable. These difficulties arise from the nature of the subject-matter, as that is related to the inadequate psychologic preparedness on the part of those who are being addressed. The subject-matter is difficult, because psychanalysts specialize on the unconscious conditioning factors of our unconscious mental processes, and especially on the resultant subjective conditions