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Reviews.
Money-Kyrle, R. Remote Consequences of Psychoanalysis.—An interesting essay in which the writer would translate psychoanalytic conceptions into behavioristic terminology. It is a statement of an argument which makes up a forthcoming book on the “Development of the Sexual Impulses.” He speaks of the reactions of the organism to the primary stimuli of injuries and of needs making towards their removal. Also to secondary stimuli, threats with avoidances and the seeking of means for such avoidance. Thus one has injuries and needs, threats and means, and resultant reactions of removals, avoidances and seekings. In these last one finds the organism making mistakes, hence inappropriate reactions which may be irrelevant or inadequate. Psychoanalysis, in this frame of reference, eliminates or reconditions irrelevant avoidances and inadequate seekings. Its aim is to make conscious, cure is a secondary result. Increasing consciousness of motives is a natural evolutionary and developmental process going on in the phylum and in ontogeny. Psychoanalysis accelerates the process for the individual. Possibly, the writer suggests, mankind is on the threshold of a rational age in which the species will become increasingly conscious of their motives and increasingly able to distinguish adequate from inadequate seekings and relevant from irrelevant avoidances—geologically if not historically speaking, at least.
If such a process of enlightenment is really taking place it becomes interesting to speculate concerning its theoretical limits. What types of inappropriate reaction