Richard Sterba. 'Der Kosmologische Gesichtspunkt in Freuds Trieblehre'. Psychoanalytische Bewegung, 1932, Jahrgang IV, 526–529.

Freud, with his dynamic psychology, based on instinct, built the first real bridge between psychology and biology. His work on instincts led him to the hypothesis of the compulsion to repetition, which forces each individual to repeat not only the traumatic events in ontogenetic development, but also the phylogenetic processes—through each form of life—back to the inorganic that was before life. The changes from inorganic to organic, as also the changes in the organic, are due to cosmic processes. We thus see that possibly the relationship of the earth to the sun—which is the only life-giving one—could be read in the repetitions found in living organisms, if we knew the writing. The events of human life were determined centuries ago by cosmic happenings. Freud has thus given a new meaning to two old phantasy systems of mankind, i.e. to the dream and to astrology.