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and, further, that unless positive transference occurs the metliod is powerless to effect a cure" (p. 110). And yet this passai^e immed- iately follows one quoted from Freud enunciating the same tiling as ^ a truism of psycho-analysis.
Part II, "Theoretical", comprises three chapters. The first is on Freud's theory of dreams. A concrete account is given and the author's only personal comment is to express the opinion that the interpretation of fear dieams as wish-fulJilmcnt dreams leaves him unconvinced. In fact, he stigmatises it as "this persistent and almost impertinent faith- fulness to one idea". The second chapter, "Freud's Theory of the Unconscious", is a condensation of the final chapter of the Traum- deutuiig, the last page or two being dovotc. 14), and it is implicit in his whole attitude towards the subject, notably in the account he gives of a "Freudian case" (p. 106, 107). Having no sort of familiarity with the psycho-analytic technique, it is comprehensible that his knowledge of the unconscious is purely second-hand and his views on it, there- fore, of no particular interest.
