accept portions of the doctrine is symptomatic of
unconscious resistances which prevent one from
seeing its truth. The present writer must admit at the
outset that he lacks this prerequisite, if such it be;
but a simple logical distinction will perhaps serve
to draw the teeth from the objection that I should
therefore not embark on this enterprise at all. The
causes which lead a man to hold a set of beliefs are
always to be distinguished from the reasons which
can be adduced in support of those beliefs. I shall
support my contention with reasons whose validity
will therefore be independent of the truth of any
causal account of how I came to advance these con-
tentions. If psychoanalysts think that I misrepre-
sent Freud, or draw wrong conclusions about his
achievement, this will I hope be an occasion for
them to clarify the authentic psychoanalytic doc-
trine so that it may not be so misunderstood in
future. But it is perhaps worth saying at the outset
that I should not even want to begin on an essay like
this were I not persuaded of Freud's essential and
unassailable greatness.

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