News, Notes and Comments

Reports on the Centenary Celebrations organized by the International Psycho-Analytical Association and by its Component Societies will, no doubt, figure prominently in the President's Report at the forthcoming 20th International Congress in Paris and will subsequently be published in the Bulletin. To avoid duplication no interim report will be given in these columns. The programme of the Centenary meetings and lectures has already been printed in this volume, pp. 115–116.

Publications on the Occasion of the Freud Centenary

Only a very few of the many publications dedicated to Freud and psycho-analysis have so far become known to the editor. Some of these should be recorded here.

Quite recently a volume has been published by Dr. Ernest Jones, Sigmund Freud—Four Centenary Addresses (New York: Basic Books, 1956; London: Tavistock Publications, 1956).

Two publications have reached us from the United States. The Freud Centenary Exhibit of the American Psychoanalytic Association is a descriptive catalogue for visitors to the Freud Centenary Exhibit at the Morrison Hotel, Chicago, and the New York Academy of Medicine. It contains many and rarely seen illustrations, among them facsimiles of documentary material on the life of Freud and the history of psycho-analysis. Dr. Bertram D. Lewin, chairman of the American Centenary Committee, and Dr. Naomi Katcher, editor of this absorbing production, are to be congratulated and thanked for it.

A monograph in the form of an attractive pocketsized volume by Dr. Jacob A. Arlow, The Legacy of Sigmund Freud (New York: International Universities Press, 1956), is another publication by one of the members of the American Centenary Committee. Dr. Arlow's assignment was 'to arrange a display of Freud's work directed to the general public rather than to the expert in psycho-analysis or in the history of science'. In this volume a 'representative sampling of Freud's work, organized according to the var