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This is a translation and elaboration of an article which first appeared in Budapest in 1939. Szamosi very competently analyzes the manner in which the human voice is produced and discusses inhibitions which prevent the individual from giving free rein, by means of his voice, to inner needs and urges. He repeatedly emphasizes the fact that the voice has a sexual function and that all kinds of erotic and aggressive drives can find expression through it.
While the instrumentalist relies on the mechanics of his particular musical instrument for the expression of feeling through sound production, the vocalist can rely only on himself—a situation in which hesitancy or uncertainty produce inhibition.
Even the early Italian masters recognized the relation between digestive regularity and vocal exhalation (i.e. between oral drives and vocalization). But Szamosi denies that there is a causal relation between the two. In his opinion, it is a matter of a 'specific mechanical identity, with fundamental manifestations typical of the unconscious, recently recognized in other fields of spiritual life'.
Touching on other points of general interest (he quotes many who have studied the vocal organs and the voice), he makes a comparison between the German and the Italian schools of voice training. According to him, the Germans are inhibited and hard, indicating a repression of instincts, while the Italians are much freer, sublimate, and do not repress as much. He accentuates the futility of many methods of teaching singing and closes with the remark that this pedagogic system of freeing inhibitions through singing is of particular importance.