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October 15, 1927. Dr. S. Ferenczi: Account of his lecturing-work abroad. Besides describing his own instructional work, Ferenczi gave a vivid picture of scientific movements and of individual scientists in America.
October 29, 1927. Dr. I. Hermann: Notes on the formation of the super-ego. In many obsessional neurotics the development of the super-ego is determined by a special historical factor, namely by faulty or immoral actions on the part of otherwise moral fathers. In two cases persons less closely associated with the subject were the initiators of immoral acts. Both incidents admit of a single construction, if we give a place in the development of the super-ego to a 'group-scheme' in which are included the demands of strangers and of those in the environment of the subject. The part played by near and distant relationships in idealization.
November 11, 1927. Dr. S. Ferenczi: Gulliver-phantasies.
November 19, 1927. Dr. M. Bálint: The dread of death (a clinical contribution). The approach of death is detected by the patient in various illnesses. Angina pectoris differs from other acute seizures, such as epilepsy, choking-fits, apoplexy and so on, in that the patient goes through this terrible experience with his consciousness perfectly clear. It is therefore probable that this is the illness in which we have the truest picture of the dread of death. Analysis of the death-phantasies of a patient suffering from angina pectoris has fully confirmed Ferenczi's hypothesis that the dread of death is really dread of castration.