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The ninth International Psychoanalytic Congress took place at Bad Homburg, Germany, September 3, 4, 5, 1925. Viewed from every point of view it was a very profitable meeting. At least 200 were in attendance, half of whom were regular members of the various local societies. Dr. Karl Abraham of Berlin presided with much tact and consideration; Dr. Eitingon was secretary. From the American point of view many of the papers were much too long—they could have been presented in abstract—and a better survey of the developmental phases of the entire psychoanalytic movement could have been gained.
The meeting was truly international. The members of the congress from America were Jelliffe, Clark, Burrow, Coriat, Oberndorf, Stern, and Glueck.
The scientific proceedings were opened by a paper from Professor Freud, which was read by Anna Freud, his daughter.
1. FREUD, S. Psychical Results of Differences in Anatomical Sexual Structure.
It becomes more and more evident with the increasing experience with psychoanalysis, as gathered by many investigators, that the analysis must be able to get into the earliest childhood experiences in order to be most effective. This is not only of increasing theoretical interest but of actual practical value in spite of the fact that such an analysis gets increasingly more difficult and time consuming and leads into regions where one has little guide from previous experience. It further threatens to mechanize the analytic procedure and calls for almost impossible coöperation on the part of both patient and physician.
Freud speaks of presenting these considerations, not so much after the manner of his Traumdeutung or Bruckstiick where he allowed the ideas to incubate a number of years—ten to fifteen, at least—but as perhaps more rapidly brought out from considerations of a different order. When he alone was the only worker in the field it was necessary perhaps to go to the limit in investigation, now with hosts of eager co—workers he feels justified to l