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October 16, 1929. Dr. Eder: A preliminary communication on 'The Animosity of the Father to the Son'.
November 6, 1929. Dr. Yates: 'Psycho-Analytical Factors in Virginity and Ritual Defloration'. The chief motive underlying the valuation of virginity is the unconscious conviction that the virgin belongs to the father; the practice of ritual defloration an expression of this belief: the father (usually a substitute) initiates the bridal pair into sexual intercourse; virgin gives the father his due; at same time achieves partial fulfilment of incest-wish; husband receives father's sanction for incest and is relieved of anxiety and guilt.
November 20, 1929. Dr. Brierley: 'On the Unconscious Motivations of Attempted Abortion'. Clinical evidence showing that in one case the attempt was due to anxiety relating to an early Oedipus theft guiltsituation; phantasy that the child (father's penis, fæces, money) had been stolen from her mother's womb (bowel) and would be taken from the patient by force (cut out by her analyst) unless she got rid of it herself, i.e. expiated her guilt by abortion.
December 4, 1929.
a.Miss Searl: 'An Associative Connection between Teeth and Toes'. Nucleus of the ego is the mouth-nipple relationship; baby trying to put its toes in its mouth is omnipotently trying to recapture the distant nipple; teeth growing are for the baby the permanently attained and retained toe-nipples; they hurt in a degree corresponding in phantasy with the baby's own sadism.
b.Miss Low: 'Preliminary Communication on the Significance and Effect of the Film on the Mind'. The theme of the film unimportant; appeal to the ucs probably lies in mechanism; important factors are: (1) magical creation, (2) omnipotence, (3) narcissistic appeal, (4) exclusive appeal to the visual, (5) distortion, (6) timelessness; these attributes identifiable with ucs and partake closely of the nature of the dream; other important factors are anal gratification and the fact that the film recr