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This appreciative study appears in one of Norway's most progressive monthly magazines. It opens with an account of Freud's 1916 Lectures and reviews these with the 1932 New Lectures which are regarded as his personal confession. The article contains a detailed analysis of these New Lectures concluding with a condensed summary of the last chapter which as Landmark writes contains Freud's personal confession as a serious word from a man who looks back upon his life work as a whole.
There are not many diversions in this history. For 45 years he has worked with psychoanalysis almost alone. His friend and teacher Breuer deserted him early. Alone he had to stumble step by step against inner doubts and the world's denunciation. The psychiatric profession was one of the honorable exceptions, although even here he was met with scorn and often with shabby assault. He has never moved, however, from his track. Slowly he has won followers and among the most reputable experts throughout the world. Even still one hears the prophecy of forty years ago, that in five years more time psychoanalysis will have come to an end. But such has not been the case nor is it likely to take place in the immediate future. Time alone can tell of the changes that may take place as it advances into new territories. It has influenced all thinking throughout the world. Even should its theoretical foundations need reconstruction the insight obtained into human behavior will remain one of its greatest assets. Freud's undaunted intellectual honesty and his willingness always to face new facts will be counted as among the human accompaniments of his undoubted genius. (JELLIFFE.)