Psycho-Analysis and Neuroses: By Dr. Hans von Hattingberg. Translated by Arnold Eiloart, B.Sc., Ph.D. (The C. W. Daniel Company, London, 1932. Pp. 192. Price 7 s. 6 d.)

This critique of the theoretical basis of psycho-analysis suffers from two serious defects. Dr. von Hattingberg almost ignores the work of the last fifteen years; the formation of the ego and the super-ego, the relation of agressive to libidinal impulses. He refers in passing to the ego-ideal as being formed 'if the child-like idealism is disillusioned'. It is unnecessary to deal seriously with this jejune and belated criticism of psycho-analytic theory. The original German is no doubt ponderous and involved, but this hardly excuses a translation which is oftentimes almost unintelligible. I do not refer to the occasional incorrect rendering of technical terms; for instance, Freud's ES is translated by IT instead of the word ID accepted in psychological literature. But there are too many sentences like these: 'Secondly, the course of the attack as a self-heightening to and fro, with the movement growing stronger and the intervals shorter to the climax, which is succeeded by the relaxation' (p. 44). 'And eroticism manifests especially in that the evacuation and especially the retention of the stool causes pleasurable sensations,