Psychoanalysis and Love: By André Tridon, Member of 'The Medico-Legal Society of New York City', 'The Society for Forensic Medicine of New York City', and 'The International Association for Individual Psychology of Vienna, Austria'. (Bretano's Ltd., London.)

This is one of the last works of André Tridon. It has the same degree of merit as his other books, and though the reader can distinguish nothing of psychoanalysis in it and nothing of love, it would not be right to single out this book from the many like it on both subjects that he and others have lately written—and spare the rest.

The publisher's wrapper describes the book as 'An amazing dissection of the mightiest of Human Passions' and as containing 'Everything psycho-analysis has laid bare about love. These assertions are contradicted by any chance quotations:

'Fetishes may be of a non-physical kind. A profession may be a fetish, and so can a mental attitude, in short, anything which in childhood may have been considered as a source of safety, comfort, egotistical gratification, etc.' (p. 24).

'A glance at a human body enables one to determine as accurately as an autopsy would, the size of a person's thyroid, adrenals, etc.'

'As the development of these glands corresponds to the social and sexual behaviour of the individual, a review of the various bodily fetishes from the endocrinological point of view will be helpful to the average reader' (p. 227).

'Sublimation. Endocrinology strikes now the last blow at those theories, one of which by the way, was Freud's romantic hypothesis of the 'sublimation'.'

'Freud believed that sexual energy could be diverted towards social ends of greater value and non-sexual in character. This is scientifically absurd, as it disregards the dualism of glandular secretions. The outward secretions cannot be 'saved' and the inner secretions which are beyond our control flow directly into the blood stream' (p. 267).

As the author is no longer with us we must receive these unusual views in silence.