Internationale Zeitschrift Fur Psychoanalyse

1. On the Psychogenesis of a Case of Female Homosexuality. SIGMUND FREUD.

2. On the Catatonic Seizure. H. NUNBERG.

3. An Unconscious Pregnancy Phantasy. MICHAEL JOSEF EISLER.

4. The Narcissistic Valuation of Excretory Processes in Dream and Neurosis. KARL ABRAHAM.

5. On the Origin of the Feeling of Being Followed. J. H. W. VAN OPHUIJSEN.

1. On the Psychogenesis of a Case of Female Homosexuality.—An English translation of this article was published in the International Journal of Psycho—Analysis, Vol. I, No. 2, and a review of the English article appeared in the PSYCHOANALYTIC REVIEW, Vol. 9, No. 4, p. 28. For this reason only a brief summary is given here. Freud, after calling attention to the fact that homosexuality in women has hitherto been given little attention in psychoanalytic literature, analyzes a case which came to his attention. A girl, eighteen years of age, became strongly attracted to women of doubtful reputation, to the exclusion of all other interests. Her infatuation finally led to an attempt at suicide. Freud found the psychological motive of these abnormal conditions to be an unconscious desire on the part of the girl for revenge on the father, or, otherwise expressed, an over—reaction to a father fixation. Facts in the history of the girl (love for a boy in early childhood and love for a brother born after the girl had attained puberty) revealed a heterosexual foundation for the homosexuality. There had been a strong fixation of affection on the father, but when repulsed she defied him (ambivalent reaction). The result of this was her final homosexual attitude. She excluded men from the field of interest—a repudiation, rejection of the unattainable. Thus, Freud states, the source of homosexuality in the female is found to be the same as in the male, with the sexual signs of the object reversed, i.e., in the Oedipus complex. It was impossible for Freud to successfully treat this case owing to complications in the transference. Freud became