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April 26, 1928. The following were elected to membership: Frau G. Behn-Eschenburg, Küsnacht-Zürich; Dr. med. H. Steiner, Zürich.
1Zulliger: The wearing of masks: a custom in Lötschental.
2Blum: A dream and a witticism. A patient produced a witticism as an association to a dream. Dream and wit: psychological similarities and contrasts. The reason why the association occurred in the form of wit lies in the transferencesituation. The material connected with the dream and the witticism emerged later and answered to all the criteria of the 'comic'. Brief indication of the dynamic and economic parallels between the situations in wit and in hypnosis (the 'group' of two, catharsis by abreaction).
May 11, 1928. It was announced that the Training Committee proposed to arrange a course of lectures at Berne.
Dr. Steiner: A difficulty in writing and its part in the structure of a neurosis. One of the symptoms displayed by the patient in this case was a difficulty in writing. All the features of the whole neurosis were condensed in this particular symptom, and every detail had a definite meaning and a manifold determination.
June 9, 1928. Dr. Hárnik (Berlin, guest of the Society): The problem of religious conflicts in psycho-analytic therapy. Taking as a concrete illustration the neurosis of a female patient, the speaker described her religious conflicts during analysis, traced them to their source in early childhood, and finally showed how they were resolved. In this connection various theoretical points suggested themselves.
On June 10, 1928, the Society visited Landerziehungsheim Hof-Oberkirch, where the Director, Herr Tobler, one of the members of the Society, gave a brief account of the method by which he is educating his pupils on psycho-analytical principles.