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January 18, 1930. (The Hague.) Business Meeting.
Election of Officers.—President, Dr. J. H. W. van Ophuijsen; Secretary, Dr. A. Endtz; Treasurer, Dr. F. P. Muller; Librarian, Professor Dr. K. H. Bouman.
The rest of the meeting, to which members of certain medical societies had been invited, was devoted to the inauguration of the psycho-analytical Lecture Courses which had been organized. Dr. van Ophuijsen gave the inaugural address, in which he sketched the history of the psycho-analytical movement in Holland and explained the aim of the Lecture Courses.
Dr. S. J. R. de Monchy spoke on the origin and significance of neurotic symptoms, giving an account, illustrated by a number of examples, of the origin of psychic symptoms and of their cure by psycho-analysis.
March 22, 1930. (Leyden.) (1) Frau Dr. C. M. Versteeg-Solleveld: 'A case of phobia'. Various determinants of the patient's anxiety lest she had incarcerated some child somewhere. Apart from hate-impulse against little brothers and sisters, the following were determining factors—rivalry with the mother, scoptophilia and castration-phantasies.
(2) Dr. A. Endtz: 'The execution of Damien'.
June 14, 1930. (Amsterdam.) (1) Dr. J. H. W. von Ophuijsen: Account of the Washington Congress for Mental Hygiene.
In the name of the Dutch Society, Dr. J. E. G. van Emden thanked Dr. van Ophuijsen for representing the psycho-analytic movement, and, in particular, the Dutch Society, at the Congress.
(2) Dr. A. J. Westerman-Holstijn: 'Remarks on the ego-ideal'. If our conception of the ego-ideal is such that it leads us to impose on others a 'social ego-ideal', we are abandoning the analytical position (the object of which is first to break down resistances and then to bring repressed material into consciousness and allow the patient's psychic development