A review by John Anderson of R. Money-Kyrie's ‘Freudianism and society: Superstition and society’ and John Rickman's (ed.) 'Civilization, war and death -selections from three works by Sigmund Freud’, published in the Australasian Journal of Psychology and Philosophy in June of 1940, and reprinted in Studies in Empirical Philosophy. This text was transcribed as part of the University of Sydney's Australian Digital Collections between 1997-2010, and format shifted to PDF in 2021-22. All Anderson resources in this collection were created in accordance with the terms of the Alexander Anderson bequest and are presented here for private research and study only. They form part of the overall publication project initiated by the bequest and are held in copyright.