Zentralblatt für Psychoanalyse

1. Further Contributions to Dream-Interpretation. prof. sigmund freud.

2. A Lie. dr. F. riklin.

3. “Is Bronchial Asthma a Sexual Neurosis?” dr. J. sadger.

4. Contribution to the Theory of the Resistance. dr. alfred adler.

5. The Psychic Treatment of Epilepsy. dr. wilhelm stekel.

1Dream-Interpretation. — Freud gives from his personal experience with patients the analyses of certain symbols occurring in dreams. The first of these was “the hat” as symbol of man or male genitals. The dream fragment given was that of a young married woman who suffered from agoraphobia and temptation-anxiety. The second was that “the little one” (child) denotes the genitals (male or female) and “being run over” signifies sexual intercourse. This interpretation was supported by the analysis of a dream from the same patient as the first. The third example illustrates the representation of the genitals by buildings, staircases and shafts. This use was shown in the dream of a young man inhibited by a father-complex.

In conclusion, Freud gives some less freqqent dream symbols: displacement to childhood is dramatized in the dream by the figures appearing as of gigantic size. Again, a man dreams that he goes to a railway station to take a train when the platform of the standing car approaches him. This inversion of the actual conditions is an index denoting that some other part of the dream content should be inverted.

2. A Lie. — Riklin analyzes the motives which caused an honest servant-maid to tell a useless lie and finds that the lie was the substitute realization of a repressed sexual wish.

3. Is Bronchial Asthma a Sexual Neurosis? — Sadger believes that in many cases this question may be answered in the affirmative. In all the cases which he has investigated, the sexual basis has been absent in none. He reports in considerable detail the analysis of a young homosexual man who had had terrific attacks of what seemed to be genuine