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This large monograph is a nicely arranged presentation of the psychoanalytic doctrines. At the outset several schemes are offered in outline form to illustrate the early factors in the development of the child. For example, Scheme I shows the early love experiences and their mental importance with the general mechanisms of primary childish wishes, and Scheme II indicates the stages and degrees of the oral, epidermal, anal, urethral, genital, manual, etc, cravings and patterns. In elaboration of these various schemes many traits and events of childhood are discussed including the extent displacement and fate of the primary childish wishes, predevelopment the distresses of love life, the establishment of objective fear, the trauma, environmental prohibitions, the criminalistic impulse and the growth of morals. The drainage or turning aside takes place through several channels, among which are play and work, phantastic and constructive thinking, sorrow and hope, and identifications and ideal formations. However, through displacement, failures in drainage may occur and present themselves in the form of distortions of the object love, in fixations with regression to phantasy and perversions, or appear as “angst” with feelings of guilt and needs for punishments, or still more profoundly as frank depressions with or without neurasthenoid complications.
It is emphasized that in the breaking through of the displacement, the wish or desire usually comes forth as some sort of fear reaction; appearing as (1) a limited or generalized bodily impulse, (2) as impotence— ejaculatio precox—vaginismus, etc., (3) as symbolic speech or (4) in general ways. The meaning of the psychosis is also discussed to a