In inviting me, a priest and psychoanalyst, to pay homage to Freud, the organizers of this conference* have accepted a risk along with their choice. They thought that religious values as such have not suffered and that they could even benefit from psychoanalysis in its essential point: a METHOD of research — a TECHNIQUE for straightening out the psyche — and a therapeutic ATTITUDE.

The article that follows is the second part of a study on Freedom prepared by the author for the International Dictionary of the Basic Terms of Philosophy and political Thought. The first half of the essay appeared in Philosophy Today, Summer 1960, pp. 126-136.