I am very much afraid it will be just as difficult to force the laymen to study medicine, as it is for me to induce physicians to study psychoanalysis. Human nature is like that. “If you are correct in your assumption that analytical treatment cannot be administered without a special training, but that on the other hand the medical curriculum could not bear the burden of psychoanalytical training, and that medical knowledge, to the greatest extent, is superfluous for the analyst, how will we ever achieve the ideal medical personality, the physician who can cope with all the demands of his profession?” I am unable to foresee how to solve these difficulties, and I do not feel called upon to make any suggestions. I only perceive two things clearly: firstly, that the analysis seems to constitute a dilemma, but certainly the neurotic is also a dilemma; secondly, that for the time being, all interests would be served if physicians resolve to tolerate a class of therapeutists who will relieve them of the arduous treatment of those tremendously frequent psychical neuroses, in addition benefiting the patients by remaining in constant contact with them. “Is that your last word in reference to the problem of lay-analyses, or is there something else?” There is a third interest to be considered:—that of science. Although what I have to say in that respect may not mean much to you, it nevertheless means a good deal to me. We do not consider it advisable that psychoanalysis be swallowed up by medicine, finally to be shelved in a text-book of psychiatry, under the chapter heading of Therapy, together with such other treatments as Hypnotic Suggestion, Auto Suggestion, Persuasion which, due to lack of knowledge, were indebted for their short lives to the indolence and ignorance of the broad masses. Psychoanalysis deserves a better fate, which, let us hope, it will really attain. As the Psychology of the Depths, the teaching of the Unconscious, psychoanalysis may prove indispensable to all sciences which deal with the development of human culture, and such of its great achievements as art, religion, and civilized society. Psychoanalysis has already appreciably assisted these sciences in the solution of their problems. But all this is insignificant, compared to what may be achieved through psychoanalysis in the future, when students of History, Psychology of Religion, and Etymology, will avail themselves to the fullest extent of the assistance psychoanalysis will be able to render them. The employment of psychoanalysis for the treatment of neuroses is only one of its possibilities, and time may yet prove that this is not even the most important of them. At any rate, it would be unfair to sacrifice all other advantages of psychoanalysis, simply because there is just one phase where the application of psychoanalysis encroaches upon the preserves of medicine.