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Beyme, F. (Basle). ‘Archetypischer Traum (Todeshochzeit) und psychosomatisches Symptom (weibliche Impotenz) im Lichte der Forschungen von J. J. Bachofen, C. G. Jung und E. Neumann.’ (‘Archetypal dream and psychosomatic symptom’.) Schweiz. Arch. Neurol. Psychiat. 92, 1, 1963, and 93, 1, 94, 1, 1964.
This paper sets out to carry forward a suggestion made by Jung that dreams could be of practical value in the differential diagnoses of psychosomatic illnesses. Basing his attitude on Neumann's theories of development, the writer takes as his hypothesis thatwomen who present a particular archetypal dream (an unconsummated marriage with death) have not yet reached the patriarchal stage of their development and are therefore incapable of sexual orgasm. Clinical and statistical evidence is given in support of the validity of this thesis.
FORDHAM, Michael (London). ‘Ego and the self. Journal of Psychology (issued by the Dept of Psychology, Government College, Lahore), 1, 1, 1964.
In this paper the author restates his definitions of the ego and the self, and the processes of deintegration and integration by which one arises from the other. He emphasizes the value of this concept for elucidating meaningful coincidences (synchronicity), and for the understanding and managing of syntonic countertransference as a means of information. He illustrates this second point in detail from an analysis in which at a certain stage the use of projective identification had become paramount.
GORDON, Rosemary (London)’ ‘African mythology: the origin of death’. Guild of Pastoral Psychology, Lecture 129, 1965.
A study of some African myths of how and why death originally entered the world. It develops the writer's interest in the problem of man's attitude to death and the meaning it may have for him as a symbol of the relationship and the conflict between the ego and the self. Some of the stories illustrate this in terms of a culture where personality differentiation and eg