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Together with Communications of the German Psycho-Analytical Society (DPV), the list of its members and their scientific publications (from 1963 to 1967), reports of its training institutes and conferences, the fourth volume of this year-book contains further theoretical and clinical contributions of interest. Apart from (translated) essays which have already appeared elsewhere (W. Muensterberger on the "Creative Process and its relation to the Loss of Object and Fetishism", J. O. Wisdom on the "Psycho-Analytical Theories of Melancholia", and J. Klauber on "Three Typical Stages of Transference in the Analysis of Neurotic Depression"), the theoretical part of this annual contains Peter Fürstenau's essay on sublimation, the continuation from the Vol. 3 of Klaus de Hoppe's essay on transitional objects, and W. Loch's on the "Possibility of a Shortened Psycho-Analytical Therapy". Fürstenau emphasizes both the differences between reaction-formations and sublimation and the importance of the role of sublimation as a critical function. He is in opposition to the views (of Kubie, Greenacre and Kris) which do not attribute therapeutic value to sublimation, and those who (like Glover) regard sublimation as an outcome of successful phobia. With Fenichel, the author connects sublimation with identification and wishes to distinguish "non-repressive" sublimation, i.e. a non-violent levelling out between the aims of the drive and the ego, and those reactive, repressive structures which shelter under the cloak of apparent normality but which in fact are, under the aegis of successful drive-control, nothing but inconspicuous neurotic manifestations. There is a useful review of psycho-analytic definitions of sublimation in this paper. In Hoppe's view many patients experience the analyst less as a transference and more as a transitional object, which, if the phenomenon is temporary, proves to be useful, whereas the permanent re-cathexis of a transitional object (now in the form