morton's essay, "freudian commonsense", addresses freud's influence on popular thinking about the mind and human motivation. morton maintains that freud's theories have influenced conceptions of mind and motive in a way that no psychological theory ever previously has. hampshire's essay, "disposition and memory", is a revised version of a paper first published in "the international journal of psychoanalysis" in 1962. it provides an account of mental dispositions and character traits, in which hampshire attempts to explain their development, as well as how impulses come to be inhibited. hampshire describes the essay as having freud's theory of repression as its starting point, noting that the theory seems to suggest different views of repression and its relation to anxiety. sach's essay, "on freud's doctrine of emotions", argues that summaries of freud's thought have tended to neglect freud's doctrine of the emotions. sachs focuses in particular on freud's view that a person's emotions are always proportionate in nature to their causes and objects, even though their relationship to them may appear to be discrepant or incongruous.