Secret Ways of the Mind

In his preface the translator undertakes to show the significance of psychoanalysis in modern psychology. When psychology was elevated to the dignity of a science during the latter half of the 19th century, ho says, it became so anxious to imitate the quantitative methods of the other sciences, particularly the physical sciences, that the real subject matter of psychology was lost, and the new science failed in achieving its purpose. To quote: "The layman who c i dishlj believes that he will learn something from the ordinary books on psychology about human nature as he sees it in the sufferings, deceptions, joys, am i ions, loves, and aversions of everyday life, will be bitterly disappointed