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It would be too much to expect Dr. Jones to be as objective about Freud's beliefs as he is about Freud's personality. To Jones, psychoanalysis is not a theory which may sooner or later be displaced by some other theory; it is an eternal truth which may grow bigger and better but will never be disproved.
Biographer Jones believes that Freud was the first man ever to "know himself," the first to examine depths whose "inner resistance" had baffled all others "from Solon to Montaigne, from Juvenal to Schopenhauer." But stout partisanship in no way dulls the brilliance of Jones's biography, any more than it did in the case of James Boswell's celebrated admiration for Samuel Johnson.
* Dr. Jones's own unbreakable silence during chimney sweeping has given rise to the hyperbolical legend that his patients hear him speak only twice: "How do you do?" at the first meeting, "Goodbye" at the last.