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January 11, 1928. Mrs. Riviere gave an abstract of Freud's paper on Fetichism.
February 1, 1928 Dr. Róheim (Budapest): Race-psychology and evolution. Primitive civilization is oral, capitalism anal. Investigation shows that wherever we find a culture based on anal sublimation among primitive tribes (quartz symbolism in South-East Australia, capitalism in Melanesia), the anal quality of the symbols is not due to progress from the oral but to regression from the genital stage of development.
The notion of cycles in development: repeated moves to the genital phase followed by castration anxiety and a genitofugal trend (Ferenczi).
Civilization evolved in regressive phase. The theory of an introjected modified regression, i.e. the genital development (Ferenczi) in conflict with the two essential defence-mechanisms as represented by Freud.
Society built up on this defence-mechanism. Religion is a mixture of the two types.
Evolution of civilization is also dependent on the ego-mechanism of