The International Journal of Psycho-Analysis

1. Freud, S. Certain Neurotic Mechanisms in Jealousy, Paranoia, and Homosexuality, 1-11.

2. Alexander, F. The Castration Complex in the Formation of Character. 11-43.

3. Sachs, H. The Tempest. 43-89.

4. Freud, Anna. The Relation of Beating Phantasies to the Day Dream. 89-103.

5. Communications.

6. Abstracts: Book Reviews.

1. Freud, S. Neurotic Mechanisms in Jealousy, Paranoia, and Homosexuality.—Jealousy is one of those affective states, like grief, that may be described as normal. If anyone appears to be without it, the inference is justified that it has undergone severe repression and consequently plays all the greater part in the unconscious mental life. The instances of abnormally intense jealousy met with in analytic work reveal themselves as constructed of three layers. These are here described as (1) competitive or normal jealousy, (2) projected, and (3) delusional jealousy.

Freud says regarding normal or competitive jealousy it is essentially compounded of grief (the pain caused by the thought of losing the loved object), and the narcissistic wound. Further of feelings of enmity against the successful rival and of a variable amount of self-criticism which tries to hold the person himself accountable for his loss. Although within the range of “normal” this jealousy is not rational for it has its deeply rooted unconscious components and shows early inadequacies in the evolution of the Œdipus situation. Freud points out that this jealousy not infrequently is experienced bisexually; here early homoerotic components are concerned.

The second or projected type of jealousy is derived in both men and women either from their actual unfaithfulness or from repressed impulses toward such. Marriage fidelity is maintained, for the most, in the face of continual temptation. Anyone who denies this in himself seeks relief by projection. He also absolves his conscience by making his partner the guilty one in consciousness. She, or he, is not much better than the