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The Hypothesis of the Sexual Origin of Language. A. Berny.
Rhyme and Refrain. A Contribution to the Psychogenesis of the Poetic Means of Expression. K. WEISS.
Psychoanalytic Observations Concerning Cynical Wit. T. Reik.
The Mother-in-Law. S. Spielrein.
Sexual Origin of Language. Primitive art of whatever kind must be looked upon not as an esthetic product of advanced thought but rather as naturalistic, of a half compulsive, half unspeculative sort of reproduction. The art of speech must have arisen in the same manner from the instinctive life which in the early primitive time, when speech arose, was less inhibited by intellect and was also more occupied with the purely sexual and the grossly physical than at a later time. Even then an arising restraint, combined with the force of desire not always fulfilled, the seeking after such satisfaction, must have given rise to word sounds which gradually developed over into speech. Thus Berny introduces a study of the original forms of speech and their further development as expressions of the instinctive life and the emotional interests of man.
The original vowel sounds arise from the sexual call, which later modified by various consonant sounds, gives expression to man's varied activities. The vowel alone corresponds to rest pauses in work or exhaustion after work. Also in combination with the U sound it marks the rhythm between breathing and work. Sound elements appear in the onomatopoetic names given to tool's, and also to certain activities such as boring, carving and the like. The pleasure affect lay not with the work done but with the pauses and the playful imitation in work. Primitive thought viewed work and the performance of coitus as closely parallel, as the boring for fire in the procreation, of the young fire god
testifies, and terms pertaining to hand work are carried back to the sexual. Addition of the various classes of consonants further represents the extension of work and implements in more pre