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Psychology of Alcoholism. Dr. otto juliusburger.
Masturbation in Girls and Women. Dr. H. von hug-hellmuth.
1. Psychology of Alcoholism.—Juliusburger points out that while the apparent causes of alcoholic overindulgence seem to rest in the social life and customs, the real impelling causes lie in the unconscious of the individual. He does not agree with Ferenczi's statement that an enforced decrease in the use of alcohol in the German army had been followed by a corresponding increase in the number of persons suffering from neuroses and psychoses. Homosexuality seems to be one of the important unconscious causes of alcoholism. One prominent action of the alcohol is the abolition of repression, deadening of the higher nature, allowing the lower repressed instincts free play and satisfaction. This is especially plain in many criminal acts committed under the influence of alcohol in which the sadistic instinct can be distinctly seen. Although the article is of considerable length, it does not shed much new light on the problem under discussion.
2. Masturbation in Girls and Women.—This writer, being a woman herself, is able to give a clearer insight into the phenomena of masturbation among members of the female sex, infants, girls and women than a man could do. She compares the condition in the two sexes,