I. Conclusion of Report of the Fourteenth International Psycho-Analytical Congress

Marienbad, August 2, 1936

Chairman: Dr. Max Eitingon

• 1Dr. Eitingon opened the meeting with an address, which is reproduced in full at the end of this Report. After a short historical survey of the development of the I.T.C., he spoke of its present problems and the tasks which lie before it in the immediate future. He then explained in detail the proposals for the reform of the I.T.C. which had already been submitted to members in the Circular Letters.

• 2In view of the urgency of these reforms and the necessity for full discussion of them, the Chairman proposed to depart from the customary order of procedure and to deal with the new proposals at once, deferring for the moment the reports on the work of the different training institutions.

• 3This proposal having been carried, Dr. Eitingon read the revised Articles in the Statutes, which deal with the organization of the I.T.C. (These Articles were printed in the report of the Business Meeting, in the previous number of this JOURNAL, p. 104.) He then read a motion, drawn up by Dr. Sandor Radó, of New York, also relating to the future constitution of the I.T.C.; this motion, according to a covering letter, was sponsored by the Training Institute of the New York Society. The proposals were read both in English and German, and were as follows:

• We are opposed to an I.T.C. in its present form, as well as to any reorganization which would retain it as a legislative or administrative body. We suggest that the I.T.C. should be replaced by an entirely informal International Training Conference, to be open for instructors and various officers and committee members of our Institutes and Societies, convening at the occasion of Congresses under the Chairmanship and Secretaryship of the President and General Secretary of the International Psycho-Analytic Association; that is, without having special officers of its own. There should be no voting, no representation, nothing of th