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Freud's first series of introductory lectures appeared in 1916. The present volume is a new work, constituting a series of lectures published in Vienna in 1933. The seven lectures cover a revision of the theory of dreams, dreams and the occult, the anatomy of the mental personality, anxiety and instinctual life, the psychology of women, orientations and a philosophy of life. The chapter on the psychology of women presents the point of view that woman is a passive element, that her aggressiveness is constantly repressed and that the riddle of femininity will not be solved until there can be understanding of the differentiation of living creatures into two sexes. The author makes much of the point of view that the girl and woman constantly seeks development of those organs and tissues that will give her the position of the male. Most interesting of all is, of course, the philosophy of
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