This is an abbreviated from of two papers otherwise unaltered as to content which the author presented more than twenty years ago, and which he considers valid today. His main interest is in differentiating the schizophrenic and the neurotic psychic processes. His emphasis in schizophrenia is on the role of an ego defect, for example the lack of ability to repress. This problem in repression leads to development of pathological sexual and destructive ideas. Such ideas are secondary to this basic defect; whereas in the neurotic the primary problem is excessive repression of the sexual drives. The schizophrenic need for a