PEP | Article - Minutes of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society, Volume IV: 1912-1918.: Edited by Herman Nunberg and Ernst Federn. Translated by M. Nunberg. New York: International Universities Press, 1974, xix + 357 pp., $20.00.

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Abstract

Volume IV of the Minutes of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society (1912-1918) has unquestionable historic value. It contains discussions of masturbation and infantile sexuality, of the proposed anthropological origin of man's innate complexes, of narcissism and of creativity—and a multitude of other subjects. It also contains a number of memorable quotes of Freud's which reveal various aspects of his genius—his wisdom, for instance: "It is not the task of analysis to make people normal, but to make them harmonious and

PEP | Article - Minutes of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society, Volume IV: 1912-1918.: Edited by Herman Nunberg and Ernst Federn. Translated by M. Nunberg. New York: International Universities Press, 1974, xix + 357 pp., $20.00. - Lichtenberg, Joseph D.