The Psychology of Day-Dreams (Classic Reprint)

English by a foreigner, who thus, from the start, forgoes any literary claims. If in doing so he has relinquished an important advantage, it was not without the hope that the novelty of what he wished to communicate a contribution to the mechanism of thinking would to a certain degree make up for his linguistic shortcomings and dispose the reader to regard with indulgence the exotic form which he has given to his ideas. His only apology for addressing himself toE nglish readers lies in the circumstance that he has been tempted to reach them directly, as being, at present, of all nations, those who show the greatest interest in psycho-analysis. His knowledge of theE nglish soul will not leave him in the lurch when he foresees that the eccentricity of the thought-formations which he has been obliged to adduce as the foundation-stones of his theory will make an unpleasant impression on some of his readers ;but from the nature of his work this is an unavoidable evil, as everybodys secret thoughts concern exclusively the self. Therefore he pleads indulgence on the readers part, and this will be the more readily granted, he hopes, as in the theoretical part his personality disappears almost entirely into the background. Let the reader kindly bear this in mind, and he will not be unduly severe upon THE AUTHOR.
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