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October 1, 1932. Pfarrer Dr. O. Pfister, Zürich: 'The Part played by Anxiety in the Structure of Religion'. Animism and magic as the preliminary stages of religion. Purpose of all religion and religious practice: to bind or allay anxiety. In certain circumstances anxiety is increased by religion, until a reforming tendency makes its appearance. 'The ideal conception of the overcoming of anxiety by religion is (at the present time and in the great religions of civilisation) usually impracticable without the aid of analysis'. The reason why this is so.
October 22, 1932. Dr. med. Boss, Zürich (guest of the Society): 'Fragment of an Analysis in which Transitory Schizophrenic Symptoms arose'. An analysis during which schizophrenic symptoms occurred: why they arose, what they signified and how they were resolved.
November 17, 1932.
1Dr. med. H. Behn-Eschenburg, Zürich: 'The Relation of Time and Space to Unconscious Mental Processes'.
2Dr. med. Sarasin, Basle: Discussion of Nunberg's Allgemeine Neurosenlehre.
November 26, 1932. Dr. med. G. Bally, Zürich: 'The Motor System of Young Children compared with that of Animals'. Investigations by Kohler and others on the subject of the motor system in animals. Comparison with that of infants. Important conclusions with regard to the mental make-up of human beings.
December 10, 1932. Frau G. Behn-Eschenburg, Zürich: 'The Education of those who educate'. Account of a paper read at a meeting of the Society of Radical School-Reformers in Berlin, in which problems of education were discussed with reference to other papers written entirely from the standpoint of pedagogy and 'individual psychology'. The problem of the education of those who educate regarded from the psycho-analytical standpoint.