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(1932). International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 13:225-231

On the Nightmare: By Ernest Jones. (Hogarth Press and Institute of Psycho-Analysis. International Psycho-Analytical Library. No. 20 1931. Pp. 374. Price 21 s.)

Review by: J. C. F.

For nearly twenty years it has been something of a scandal that one of the most interesting works of the foremost English-speaking exponent of psycho-analysis (for no one will deny Ernest Jones this title) has not been available in English. Der Alptraum was originally published as one of the valuable Schriften zur angewandten Seelenkunde in 1912, and is incorporated (with alterations and additions) in the present book, in which it makes its first appearance in an English dress. It is doubtless a sign of the relatively slow realization of the sociological importance of psycho-analysis that it should have had to wait so long, for those who knew the work could scarcely fail to recognize that it was one of the most impressive contributions of psycho-analysis to social and historical science. In spite of its wealth of erudition and its restraint of expression (in the field that easily lends itself to a somewhat exaggerated emotionalism), it is yet in its way inevitably something of

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