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January 29, 1927. Fifth Annual General Meeting. The report for 1926 was accepted and the Council for 1927 elected as follows:
President: Dr. G. Bose.
Secretary: Mr. M. N. Banerjee.
Members of the Council: Dr. M. N. Sen Gupta and Mr. G. Bora.
The President: Pleasure in wish. The lecturer in continuation of
his previous papers further developed the theme of the 'wish circuit'. He pointed out the mechanism by which the pleasure resulting from the fulfilment of a wish is referred to one point or another in the subjective or objective half of the circuit. He also explained the relationship of this attachment to repression.
March 20, 1927. A sub-committee was formed to investigate the opinion of members of the Society on the question of lay analysis.
The President read the records of the analysis of a case showing transference. They showed the rise, growth and dissolution of a gross sexual transference in an elderly female patient. The transference was accompanied by a violent form of jealousy directed against another patient who was her neighbour.
April 24, 1927. The report of the sub-committee on the question of lay analysis was adopted. As a result of the questionnaire circulated to members of the Society it was found that there was a decided majority (eight to four) in favour of the view that non-medical men should be allowed to practise psycho-analysis when certain conditions have been fulfilled by them.
Lt.-Col. Berkeley-Hill: A remarkable example of symbolic castration. The lecturer described a case where the subject wilfully placed his left hand on the rail and allowed his hand to be cut off from the wrist by a moving train. He explained the mechanism of this symbolic castration from psycho-analytical records of the case.