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d. Dr. Schilder: 'Psychosis after an operation for glaucoma.' After an operation for glaucoma a woman patient asserts that they want to. cut off her nose, breasts, etc. as well as castrate her. In imagination she experienced attacks by animals and saw small ani- mals cut to pieces. The operation on the eyes is followed by castradon-phantasies. She also showed characteristics of transference. The operation calls forth the complex of the peril to life and to the genital organ. Birth-phantasies play an important part in the psychosis. The castration complex is the one to appear last. The later-appearing hypomanic phantasy closes the psychosis. The psychosis represents a kind of re-arrangement of the complexes. Coosequendy the appearance of the later hypomanic phase. The organic is expressed by mental means.

e. Kolnai propounds several problems relating to the connection between the ego-instincts and the sexual instincts. Though the ego- instincts are also designated an egoistic, the sexual instincts are not altruistic. The attitude of ego-instincts and of sexual instincts to sublimation is quite different. Can one assume that ego-instincts function in the repression of the sex-instincts? What is the relation of the apparent parallelism of the ego-instincts and the sexual instincts to the preference shown for the ego-Instincts by consciousness? What factor holds the ego-instincts in check? Why is society grounded in ego-instincts and not in race-instincts?

f. Dr. Hitschmami: 'On pedagogic method in Psycho-Analysis.' He showed charts for visualizing the concepts conscious, un- conscious, etc.

Discussion by Schilder, Nunberg, Rank, Reik, Friedjung, Freud, Hitschmann and Deutsch.

4. November 3j, ip2i. Dr. Bychowski tvisitor); A contribution to the psychology of schizophrenic delusion of persecution. Dis- cussion by Federn, Schilder, Fokschaner and Freud.

5. November JO. ipzi. Professor Hans Kelsen (visitor): The conception of the State and Freud's group psychology. (This paper will appear in Imago) Discussion by Silberer, Reik, Fedem, Rank, Bemfeld and Freud.

6. December i^, ipsi. Short communications : (a) Dr. Bychowski: A buddhistic womb-phantasy. (b) Dr. Reich: A contribution to the syndrome of conversion-hysteria, (c) Dr. Nunberg; A case of pro- jection, (d) Dr. Schilder: On the pathology of the ego-ideal, (e) Dr. Kauders (visitor): A contribution to the psychology of