A General Introduction to Psycho-analysis

To give a lucid, exposition of psycho-analytic doctrines in a comparatively small compass is by no means an easy task, but herein it is accomplished ideally.The book consists of a series of twenty-eight lectures which the author gave to a lay audience.It is written in almost conversational style, and though the subject must necessarily involve psychological matter that is more or less abstruse, Freud attacks the problems logically step by step, and so anticipates-and answers the natural objections and difficulties which arise, that only the most obtuse could fail to follow his reasoning and recognize the justness of most of his conclusions.Th e essentials of the author's work are contained within these pages, except that his theory of wit is only referred to in a paragraph (p.201), where he says: "The origin of wit lies in a foreconscious train of thought which is left over for a moment to uinconscious manipulation, from which it then