The importance which we were forced to attach to apparently unimportant neurotic conditions of children, in view of the fact that they very often serve as a disposition for disturbances in later life, would prove that the analyses of children constitute a splendid means of prophylaxis. Although psychoanalysis still has its enemies, I do not know what means are at their disposal to hinder the activity of a pedagogic analyst, or analytical pedagogue, and I doubt whether this could be done so easily. To return once more to the problem of the analytical treatment of adults, suffering from nervous disturbances, we have not yet exhausted all points of view. Civilized life of today exerts an almost unbearable pressure, which necessitates corrective measures. Does it seem too fantastic to expect that psychoanalysis, in spite of the many difficulties it encounters, should be called upon to furnish this corrective agent? Maybe some American millionaire will one day donate enough money for the psychoanalytical training of the social workers of his country, thus creating an emergency corps, to fight neurotic conditions brought about by present-day life. “You mean some sort of a new Salvation Army?” Why not? After all, our fancy always follows existing patterns. The stream of eager students that will then flood towards Europe, will, of course, have to pass Vienna, because there the development of psychoanalysis may have prematurely died, on account of governmental interference. You smile? I’m not saying this to sway your judgment. I know you don’t believe me, and I surely cannot guarantee that my predictions will come true. But there is one thing I know: it is not at all important what the opinions of individuals and of individual governments may be, in respect to the problem of lay-analyses. All this can only have limited effects. What is really important is that potentialities for the development of psychoanalysis cannot be affected by ordinances and prohibitions. AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL STUDY I Several of the contributors to this series of “Autobiographical Studies”[2] have begun by expressing their misgivings at the unusual difficulties of the task they have undertaken. The difficulties in my case are, I think, even greater; for I have already more than once published papers upon the same lines as the present one, papers which, from the nature of the subject, have dealt more with personal considerations than is usual or than would otherwise have been necessary.