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I should like to correct the following passage which appeared in my paper entitled "A Contribution to the Psychoanalytic Theory of Masochism" (This Journal, Vol. V, No. 2, April, 1957):
"… Hartmann refutes the theory advanced by Ferenczi (29) and taken over by Nunberg (76), according to which all adjustment to reality is based on masochism. He thinks the latter may be found in cases of psychoses (Nunberg), or may exist when reality is painful, but certainly not in adjustment to any kind of reality."
As a matter of fact, Nunberg considers masochism merely as a transitory phase in the process of adaptation, and stresses that the essential step of adaptation consists in the individual's progress from primary passive to active perceiving and experiencing. (Nunberg, H.: Principles of Psychoanalysis: Their Application to the Neuroses. New York: International Universities Press, 1955, pp. 174 ff., 199.)