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sis as occasion arises, as though they kept it on a shelf in 

 bottles, simply fail to understand the first principles of 

 the method ; for psychoanalysis is not a tablet but a system. 

 It is not to be summoned by caprice or expedience but 

 must be acquired by careful study and training, and above 

 all by the exacting discipline of a thoroughgoing self- 

 analysis. 



