Recent German Literature on Psycho-Analysis

Reports from Central Europe evince the reawakening of psycho-analytic thought and activity in Germany and Austria and the resumption of publishing activities on a larger scale by Swiss psycho-analysts. From the publications under review, however, one cannot help but realize that the second world war, unlike the first, has deeply affected the individual psycho-analyst's mode of thinking, and, judged by the choice of subjects and the ways of presentation, has kept him in isolation even from his colleagues on the other side of the neighbouring frontier. Thus it can be no surprise, if psycho-analytic thinking in Central Europe went various ways and appears to be actuated by the different degrees of physical and psychological stress to which belligerent and neutrals were exposed. It should be kept in mind that the psycho-analytic periodicals in the German language had to be discontinued and that so far no provision has been made for the exchange of clinical and theoretical studies among the Central European psycho-analysts.

With one exception no new contribution has come to the reviewer's notice from Germany, which in the past added so much to psycho-analytic literature from the centres in Berlin and Frankfort. Almost the same is true of Vienna. Only Swiss psycho-analysts have fully resumed their publishing activities, which at present aim rather at spreading than at deepening psycho-analytic knowledge.

Psycho-analysts in Holland, Hungary and the