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January 11, 1928. Short communications and abstracts:
1Frau Dr. Bibring: The primary process. The mechanism of the primary process, which (according to Freud) is characteristic of unconscious mental life, may be observed in experiments with eidetic test-pictures (E. R. Jaensch). When Bàràny's 'turning' test is applied to the subject of the experiment, apart from the specific psychic elaboration, a purely optical change takes place, the total result being those displacements, condensations, distortions, etc., which are peculiarly striking and obvious in visual memory-pictures of this sort. We draw the conclusion that the primary process characterizes the mode of functioning of all primitive mental life. (This paper will appear in full in the Zeitschrift für die gesamte Neurologie und Psychiatrie, 1928.)
2Dr. Karl Weiss: Variations in the reaction of children to the sight of the female genitals. The remarks of two boys of