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The programme of this year's Congress, which was presided over by Dr. Ernest Jones, London, and took place at the end of September in Berlin, occupied three very full days of work. On the evening preceding the opening of the Congress,
Sept. 24, those who came to take part in it were unofficially received and warmly welcomed by the Berlin Psycho-Analytical Society at the hall (Kurfürstenstrasse 115/16) where the meetings were to be held.1
On the following day Dr. Ernest Jones as President opened the scientific proceedings with a short address. The arrangement of the programme of papers to be delivered, which included a great mass of material, calls for special commendation. This programme, with the speakers' own reports of their papers, in so far as these notes have reached us, is appended here.
Dr. S. Ferenczi, Budapest: Attempt to formulate a Genital Theory.
Psycho-analytic observations upon cases of impotence in men afford a certain insight into the components of the genital function which are normally intensified to serve reproduction. Beside the 'urethral' form of the disturbance of this function (ejaculatio preacox), isolated by Abraham, the present writer distinguishes an 'anal' impotence, the tendencies of which are mainly retardatory (ejaculatio retardata, aspermia). These two disturbances in innervation (which are, more-over, invariably accompanied by a corresponding psychic superstructure) often occur side by side or alternately. The latter form in particular suggested to the writer the