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May 15, 1924. Wilhelm Rohr: Notes on method in active and passive therapy. The speaker gave a summary of the history of recent psycho-analytical methods and indicated briefly the main points under discussion as regards active and passive therapy.
May 29, 1924. Al. R. Luria: Psycho-analysis as a system of monistic psychology. The old experimental psychology was always idealistic and
of the nature of a 'mosaic'. Psycho-analysis alone has had the courage to take two big steps towards the monistic 'whole-psychology', (1) by pointing to the erotogenic zones as contributory factors in mental development (the fundamental principle of organic psychology) and (2) by considering personality in its inter-relations with social environment.
June 19, 1924. Wilhelm Rohr: Sinology and psycho-analysis. This paper was mainly a short résumé of a paper read before the Berlin Society.
October 9, 1924. Professor A. A. Siderov: The application of psycho-analysis to art. Some studies in the æsthetics of dreams as manifested specifically in painters, sculptors and architects; the peculiarity of the sexual symbols in these cases.
October 15, 1924. Business Meeting.
October 28, 1924. A. E. Brussilowski (guest of the Society): What does psycho-analysis contribute to practical criminology? Psycho-analysis is of great use in criminology: various parapraxes enable us better to understand the motives underlying the known facts. Several instances in which psycho-analysis came to the aid of criminology.
November 27, 1924. Vera Schmidt: Little 'suck-a-thumbs'. In the activities of children, sucking for pleasure plays a very large part: at the end of the first month the act of sucking begins to be differentiated into sucking due to hunger and sucking in order to derive sexual gratification. Sucking is of great importance in the development of the sense of reality, of oral erotism, etc. In this connection we may observe strong mother-fixation in the little chi