An Outline of Psychoanalysis
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revisions. It is interesting to compare the book with the earlier introductory Lectures, and to note the gradual broadening and development of psychoanalytical theory despite its firm retention of its basic truths and fundamental principles. This brief work of eighty pages contains, as is only to be expected, a clear summary of psychoanalytical theory explained in remarkably simple language. It contains nothing that will be new to the initiated student of Freudian psychopathology for it is intended only to be a general summary. It is interesting to note, in comparison with some of the earlier works, a rather more defensive attitude in the explanation of some aspects of psychopathological theory. The book benefits from this defensive attitude since it has resulted in a more explanatory and convincing description of these fundamental truths. This defensive attitude is
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