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If we make the mistake of taking Freud too seriously, of applying his own standards to the ideas of psychoanalysis, we have the unenviable task of explaining the sand to the ocean. If all our endeavors are an uneasy compromise between the impetuous it and a restrictive society, bound in-evitably to their neurotic manifold, then psychoanalysis itself can hardly be an island vouchsafed. And where does that leave us?