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Dreams and Telepathy. Freud, S. 283-305.
Analysis of an Obsessional Neurosis in a Child. Sokolnicka, Eugenia. 306-319.
The Significance of Stepping Over. Roheim, G. 320-321.
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Abstracts; Book Reviews; Obituary: W. H. Rivers.
Dreams and Telepathy. Freud, S. As are all of Freud's contributions, extremely terse and to the point, no abstract can do them full justice. This one is no exception. It is a paper read before the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society in which he first warns his hearers that he will not attempt to solve the problem, nor even express his own conclusions; even if he had them. All he expects to do is set himself the “modest task of examining the relation of telepathic occurrences, whatever may be their origin, to dreams: more exactly to our own theory of dreams.” The general opinion has been that there is an intimate relation between dreams and telepathic phenomena. He would propound the view that the two have little to do with each other. Even if the existence of telepathic dreams were established there would be no need of altering the present psychoanalytic conception of dreams. His material is slight. He can not use his own dreams, as he states; he has not had a telepathic dream so far as he is aware. Certain dreams may have had prophetic semblances, and waking life has had “presentiments,” but these have never been fulfilled and therefore have been better understood as “subjective anticipations.” One dream seems to indicate the death of a son at the front. He returned however, unscathed. Another dream announced a misfortune; it seemed to prophesy the death of an eighty-seven year old mother of two nieces. She did not die. These negative cases he urges are not used to justify any preconceptions. They are related as bits of his own experience. Further he adds that in his twenty som