Internationale Zeitschrift für Aerztliche Psychoanalyse.

On ejaculatio praecox. dr. karl abraham.

Pollution without orgastic dreams and orgasm in dreams without pollution, dr. s. ferenczi (Budapest).

On the psychology of deserters. dr. victor tausk.

On ejaculatio praecox. Notwithstanding the fact that ejaculatio praecox is the disturbance of male potency which is most frequently met with no fundamental work specially devoted to the subject has thus far made its appearance in psychoanalytic literature. The studies of Steiner and Ferenczi only treat the subject briefly and as part of a general discussion of impotence. From his own observation of a series of cases the author arrives at the view that ejaculatio praecox is due to the abnormal sensitiveness of the urethra and a fixation of the libido on the urethral functions. It may really be regarded as a combination of two processes, he states. As far as the voiding of material is concerned it is an ejaculation, but in regard to manner in which the process takes place it is a micturition; the semen is not expelled in rhythmic movements, but flows forth in an effortless manner, as the urine does; with one signal difference, however—under normal conditions, the emptying of the bladder is more or less under voluntary control; ejaculatio praecox, on the contrary, is always involuntary. But in abnormal bladder conditions there is absence of control just as in ejaculatio praecox and the fact is significant that those who suffer from incontinence of urine, who react to every emotion with irresistible pressure of urine, and who have never gained voluntary control of the bladder, or have gained it late in life, are just the persons who are inclined to ejaculatio praecox. Further the free associations of neurotics of this type furnish supplementary evidence for the solution of the problem. If the anamnesis of such cases is followed without prejudice one fact is found to recur with astonishing uniformity; all these patients experience pleasure in the performance o