Doctors know too little of psychology, and psychologists of medicine--Strong prejudice aroused by Freud's conception of the importance of the sexual moment--The commoner prejudices discussed--Psychoanalysis not a method of suggestion or reasoning--The unconscious content is reached _via_ the conscious--Case of neurotic man with ergophobia for professional work--Case of neurotic woman who wants another child--Resistances against the analyst--Dream analysis the efficacious instrument of analysis--The scientist's fear of superstition--The genesis of dreams--Dream material is collected according to scientific method--The rite of baptism analysed--When the unconscious material fails, use the conscious--The physician's own complexes a hindrance--Interpretations of Viennese School too one-sided--Sexual phantasies both realistic and symbolic--The dream the subliminal picture of the individual's present psychology--Symbolism a process of comprehension by analogy--Analysis helps the neurotic to exchange his unconscious conflict for the real conflict of life. CHAPTER VIII ON PSYCHOANALYSIS 226 Difficulties of public discussion--Competence to form an opinion presupposes a knowledge of the fundamental literature--The abandoned trauma theory--Fixation--The importance of the infantile past--Analysis discloses existence of innumerable unconscious phantasies--Œdipus complex--Fixation discussed--The critical moment for the outbreak of the neurosis--Predisposition--Author's energic view point--Application of the libido to the obstacle--Repression--Neurosis an act of adaptation that has failed--The energic view does not alter the technique of analysis--Analysis re-establishes the connection between the conscious and unconscious--Is a constructive task of great importance. CHAPTER IX ON SOME CRUCIAL POINTS IN PSYCHOANALYSIS 236 LETTER I.--LOY 236 The dream a means of re-establishing the moral equipoise--The dreamer finds therein the material for reconstruction--Methods discussed--The part played by "faith in the doctor"--Abreaction. LETTER II.--JUNG 238