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January 14, 1928. Annual Meeting. All members of the Council were re-elected.
1Dr. J. H. W. van Ophuijsen: Communications on the subject of fetichism. After a short survey of the historical evolution of the conception of fetichism the speaker discussed Freud's most recent views, according to which the fetich is a substitute for the penis which is found to be missing in the mother. Two clinical examples in illustration. In one the fetich was the female instep, the subject being a man who was impelled to seek for a penis in every woman. In the second case the subject suffered from a compulsion to seek in women for 'something which was not there'. Here the fetich was a special formation of the female breast.
2Dr. A. J. Westerman Holstijn described a case of acute schizophrenia in which the incestuous impulses were gratified and carried out in the form of hallucinations, into which certain religious ideas also entered. That religion played any part in this patient's cure was disputed, but possibly a synthetic activity of the intellect had contributed to the system of confusional ideas.