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January 20, 1932. Dr. Adrian Stephen: 'On the Repetition Compulsion'. The grounds on which Freud bases the hypothesis of the 'Repetition Compulsion' are considered. It is contended (a) that the hypothesis offers no explanation of the observed facts; (b) that other already existing psycho-analytical hypotheses are better adapted for the purpose.
February 3, 1932. Dr. Brierley: 'Some Problems of Integration in Women'. A résumé of current opinion on problems of ego and libido development in women, followed by a summary of impressions derived from the clinical observation of a small number of intermediate homo-heterosexual anxiety types. These impressions stressed the importance of oral sadism in influencing later genital development and in causing arrest of super-ego development at an early pre-genital stage. What would seem to be specific in women is not any psychic drive as such, but the balance which has to be achieved in order to produce an integrated feminine personality. A distribution of cathexes which is normal in women will be abnormal in man, and sexual character and behaviour differences, e.g. differences in capacity for sublimation, may be related to this difference in norm.
February 17, 1932. Short Communications:
1Dr. Inman: 'Stigmata'. A case of a woman with unequal pupils and retinal hæmorrhage with a sharply defined erythema encircling neck, appearing at times of mental stress; connected in analysis with a special stimulus, viz.: the