The present study is Stekel's seventh volume of his monumental series on Disorders of the Instincts and the Emotions, translations of which are rapidly appearing in English. The first chapter is devoted to “Polyphony of Thought,” by which the author means to express the idea that there are two kinds of thoughts—those that are thought out and uttered, and those that never reach expression in words, thoughts in statu nascendi, or as spoken of by Appelbach as “feeling thought.” It really is thinking in images. There are patients who, asked to give free associations, immediately produce a series of pictures which plainly represent preliminary stages of thought. The process of putting our thoughts in words is much more complicated than we ordinarily conceive it to be. The word ultimately chosen for expressing a thought is in fact a compromise formation, while the thought process which precedes the putting into words must be