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This paper reports in full the Symposium referred to above. The meeting adhered in the main to the definition of 'Infantile Neurosis' used by Dr. Greenacre in her opening paper, viz. 'The inner structure of infantile development with or without manifest symptoms which forms the basis of a later neurosis.' From observations and reconstructions made in the analyses of borderline patients, Dr. Greenacre attributes specific importance to the interrelation between two types of observable rhythmic discharge, the even lulling (typified by sucking and breathing), and the orgastic type (typified by the hollow organs). Autoerotic activities pertain to both types, with a developmental shift towards combined rhythms (finger sucking with hair pulling) and an increase and sharpening of orgastic discharge probably influenced by neuromuscular development. At birth there is a discharge potential at all instinctual levels, though the levels have specific and divergent maturational speeds. Towards the end of the first year, all zones have achieved the capacity to respond in a special way and with varying forms and degrees of interrelationship. 'It is the maturational peak and its relative prominence in the total activity of the individual organism which marks the phase and the succession of the maturational peaks which creates the appearance of a succession of phases'. Infantile response will be influenced by type of stimulus and phase dominance. 'The infant probably tends towards a specific response if at all possible. … The proportion of mixture between dominant phase response and behaviour appropriate to the specific stimulus outside the phase must vary. … If there is little discrepancy between specific stimulation and developmental maturity for specific response, then such stimulus may only hasten the maturation … and the resultant agglutination