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Can the anthropologist establish a phylogenetic series in group development corresponding to the individual ontogenetic sequence? Can he 'sub-divide different tribal organizations in accordance with the balance of psychotic, neurotic and "reality" reactions'? Is there any evidence to show that the drug addictions of primitive people could be related to degrees of paranoic mechanism exhibited in social organization? The data of anthropology are at present inadequate to supply satisfactory answers to such questions. It is suggested, '(a) that for purposes of effective communication between the sciences of anthropology and psycho-analysis, anthropological "functional" methods should be made to approximate more closely to the balance sheets of psycho-analysis… (b) that as group relations tend to throw projective mechanisms into relief, formulations based on group study should be supplemented by closer study of the individual primitive for introjection phenomena; (c) that group regulation of instinct should be assessed not only in terms of manifest reactions of anxiety, guilt and hate, but in terms of unconscious anxiety, guilt and hate, both adult and infantile; (d) that the fusions of aggressive and libidinal impulses should be very carefully studied and the history of infantile agression followed; (e) that much more attention