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April 2, 1930. Short communications:
a.Dr. Ernest Jones: 'A Sleep Ritual'. A ritual serving the purpose of warding off the patient's fear and guilt about his father before he could settle down to security in bed (the incestuous union with his mother).
b.Dr. Eder: 'Sleep and sleepiness'. Four preparatory activities described, dermo-muscular, oral, anal and genital: query, is sleep not a neurotic character trait? Two varieties of sleeplessness described: (a) from sexual unrest; (b) need for punishment.
c.Dr. Yates: 'Clinical history obtained from preliminary analysis of a hysterical case of falling asleep'.
d.Dr. K. Stephen: 'Falling asleep as a transitory symptomformation'. History of a case where falling asleep became a constant defence; the rôle of homosexuality in the transference-situation.
May 7, 1930. Dr. Eder: 'Animosity of the father to the son'. Clinical evidence in support of what might be called the 'Abrahamcomplex'; antagonism might lead to the desire to kill the unborn child and to fear of having children; vomiting of pregnancy and 'longings' often due to a similar motivation; filicide among psychotics of both sexes; evidence from folk-lore ritual ceremonies, history, literature, etc.; theory that much of child's castration-fear is a reaction to parental unconscious filicidal desires.
May 21, 1930. Dr. Brierley: 'On singing'. Themes expressed in the art of singing are variants of Oedipus themes, but libidinal charges expressed mainly pregenital. Singing an important part in solution of