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Development and Outlook of Psychoanalysis. Otto Rank und Dr. Hans Sachs.
The Savage and the Neurotic. I. The Fear of Incest. Prof. S. Freud.
The Meaning of the Griselda Tale. Otto Rank.
The Gift of Story Writing. Dr. Eduard Hitschmann.
The Application of Psychoanalysis to Pedagogy and Mental Hygiene. Pfarrer Dr. O. Pfister.
Symbolic Thought in Chemical Research. Dr. alfred robitsek.
1. Development and Outlook of Psychoanalysis.—A well-condensed
statement of the origin of psychoanalysis in the clinical observations of Breuer, its development through the genial studies of Breuer's gifted pupil, its development and rapid rise to the rank of a scientific discipline of highest importance as the result of the new stimulus furnished by the epoch making discoveries of Freud.
As a therapeutic measure in the treatment of psychoneuroses, in connection with which it had been discovered, psychoanalysis confined itself at first to problems of individual psychopathology. Soon it became evident that as the mental processes in the individual with which psychoanalysis deals have their counterpart and analogies upon the field of social psychology, the discoveries and inductive observations of psychoanalysis are also applicable in large measure to the problems in the latter field. It was logical therefore that psychoanalysis should gradually extend to problems in mythology, religion, folklore, anthropology, in fact to all problems which present a psychogenetic aspect, no matter what the scientific discipline or category may be to which such problems belong by reason of their content or theme. Towards the investigation of all such problems psy