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THE PAPER BY DR. KOERNER gives us an unflinching account of the origins of the DPG after Germany's Nazi era and the long lasting effect of Germany's embrace of Nazism on psychoanalysis. Furthermore, we have been introduced to some of the work of Harald Schultz-Hencke, a German analyst whose writings are unfamiliar to American circles. Schultz-Hencke's ideas, though they predated Hitler's, were in accord with doctrines acceptable to the Nazis and he opposed numerous contributions of Freud especially the clinical utility of working with the transference.
Dr. Koerner has attempted a reconciliation between the work of Schultz-Hencke and more traditionally accepted Freudian psychoanalytic concepts. He proposes that such a reconciliation is possible in the arena of transference by distinguishing three aspects of transferences that he has encountered in the clinical situation.
Finally, Dr. Koerner presents a case illustration which, I believe, integrates the apparently divergent themes of his presentation: the history of the DPG with its legacy of the Nazi years for the present generation of German analysts on the one hand and the discussion