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April 12, 1930. Dr. med. Geiser (Bâle): 'Psycho-analytical experience in medical practice'. The principal importance of psycho-analytical knowledge for the practising physician is in connection with the handling of the transference. Unconscious determination of particular symptoms at times revealed through a positive transference. Illustration: a patient, when coughing during the analytic hour, invariably had an attack of hiccough. Recollection of a scene in childhood, when similar hiccoughing betrayed to his father that the patient had been eating sweets before a meal. Repetition of the hiccoughing in the analytic hour: sexual enjoyment before legitimate marriage, dread of infection. The unconscious selection of phrases during anamnesia merits notice—e.g. 'My heart is sobbing' (conflict about confession); 'I feel as if something were going to burst' (here the patient indicated his breast). This signified conflict about marriage. (Author's abstract.)
May 3, 1930. Dr. med. Christoffel (Bâle): a short review of Freud's Das Unbehagen in der Kultur. Some suggestions arising therefrom. After a short survey of the book certain sections were selected for discussion. Special reference was made to the possible connection between the religious sentiment and mother-fixation.
Business Meeting. The scheme for Aichhorn's lectures was drawn up.
May 19, 1930. Aichhorn (Member of the Pedagogical Institute. Vienna): 'Some practical experiences in the education of asocial children'. Distinction between asocial and neurotic behaviour. Content and form of asocial behaviour defined: the content is aggression, while the form corresponds to the manifest content in dreams. Selected manifestations of his pleasure in aggression, when a child, welded into a whole by the asocial character. Necessary treatment: transference being impossible, the educator must master the subject's ego-organization; readiness of such patients to surrender the super-ego