Internationale Zeitschrift für Aerztliche Psychoanalyse.

Metaphysical Supplement to the Theory of Dreams. SigmundFreud.

Mourning and Melancholia. SigmundFreud.

Dr. C. G. Jung's Psychology of the Unconscious Processes. AdolfF. Meyer.

Metaphysical Supplement to the Theory of Dreams.-The purpose of this article is to render clear the mechanism of wish-fulling hallucinations. For the better' understanding of pathological conditions, says Freud, it is advantageous to draw comparisons with what may be called the normal analogies of these conditions, with mourning, for example, with sexual passion, or with dreaming. In preparing for sleep, people take off the outer covering of their bodies, lay aside those devices of which they make use to replace what is lacking in their various organs, spectacles, false hair, false teeth, etc. We can imagine the psyche going through an analogous process in going to sleep, divesting itself also of acquired complements; so that in both bodily and spiritual sense people find themselves in sleep in pretty much the same condition they were in at the beginning of the developmental processes in life. The physical condition in sleep is a return to the state in the body of the mother-a state of quiescence, of warmth, of withdrawal from stimuli-sometimes even a foetal position of the body is assumed. The psychic condition is one of complete cessation of interest in the outside world. Herein psychoanalysis sees a regression to an earlier developmental period, that of narcissism. The effort of the wish to sleep, however, is sometimes only partly successful, for not all the cravings repressed into the unconscious obey it, and besides there are remnants of the day experiences which retain a certain amount of energy. Though not of themselves very powerful, these remnants acquire sufficient force to destroy the narcissistic oblivion when, in the foreconscious, they are strengthened by affective charges from the unconscious, thus forming the dream wish. This wish, seeking expression, has