+ Booklist 17:17 O ’20
“It makes ponderous reading, and suffers from a lack of tolerance toward the author’s pupils who have departed from or enlarged upon the innovator’s technique. At the same time, it is a well-developed, exhaustive, and informative treatise upon the various vistas of the subject.”
+ − Dial 69:665 D ’20 80w
“Without stopping to inquire into the reasons for the attitude of the reactionaries, Freud has taken up their objections one by one and met them fairly. Following the rule of Darwin, he has not attempted to brush them aside with a few blustering remarks; he has keenly analyzed the obstacles they have presented. The present work offers, in an extremely attractive form, the material for a fundamental conception of psychoanalysis.” Gregory Stragnell
+ Freeman 1:572 Ag 25 ’20 950w
“Undoubtedly it is the finest exposition of the subject yet written. Those who have looked upon psychoanalysis as a plaything, as a philosophy for the parlor radical, or as a means of imparting thrills and color to studio life, will find this book greatly disappointing and little to their taste.” H. W. Frink
+ Nation 112:sup236 F 9 ’21 1750w
“You can go through a first course with the simpler books of Andre Tridon or Barbara Low; then turn to an exhaustive treatise like this one, with an initial understanding that will be of great help in understanding the immensity of this new arm of science.” Clement Wood
+ N Y Call p10 Ja 2 ’21 890w
“Freud believes that his subject merits the utmost care of presentation and the courteous condescension of the discoverer offering something new and all-important. One has only to follow these pages carefully, as questioningly as one will, to feel that the condescension is one of a genuine humility and yet the firm assurance of a man who has sincerely and conscientiously won his convictions by unremitting toil in the face of calumnious opposition.” S. E. Jelliffe