In the papers of the colloquium there are four intermingling directions of thought. 1. The majority of the participants directly or indirectly deal with the problem of analyzability; the desirability to evaluate more accurately—even in the neurotic group—the personality structure that allows the patient to establish a transference neurosis. 2. The participants attempt to clarify the concepts of castration anxiety and passive homosexual submission in men, and penis envy in women. If penis envy and passive homosexuality can be recognized and accepted as fantasies and not as real, biologically founded castration, they will no longer constitute a 'monolithic rock.' 3. There is considerable concern over the concept of the death instinct, its relation to repetition compulsion, its understanding