International Journal of Psycho—Analysis

1. FREUD, SIGM. Karl Abraham Obituary Announcement. 1-2.

2. ABRAHAM, KARL. The Psychological Relations between Sexuality and Alcoholism. 2-10.

3. GLOVER, EDWARD. The Neurotic Character. 11-30.

4. KLEIN, MELANIE. Infant Analysis. 31-63.

5. NUNBERG, H. The Will to Recover. 64-78.

6. Shorter Communications: Abstracts. Book Reviews. Report of Ninth Psychoanalytical Congress. Bulletin. 79-153.

1. FREUD, SIGM. Karl Abraham. A short announcement of his death.

2. ABRAHAM, KARL. The Psychological Relations between Alcoholism and Sexuality.

This is a paper written by Abraham in 1908 which because it is significant as an early analytic contribution to the study of alcoholism, and appeared in a magazine not always accessible—Zeit. f. Sexualwissen—schaft, is here translated. Alcoholism is more bound up in the social life of men than of women. Why? An attempt is made upon the basis of the newer findings, as in Freud's () Drei Abhandlungen, to see if this situation is bound up with differences in the psychosexual setting of the two sexes. The bisexual beginnings are outlined. The presence of sexuality in children predicated, the gradual organization phases rehearsed, and sublimation discussed. Greater repression and resistances develop in women, hence greater passivity, and in males greater activity and aggressiveness, to overcome the resistances. Alcohol tends to dispel resistances and increase activity. Attention is called to the increasing knowledge of the complexities of the sexual instinct. How adult hetero—sexuality often lugs along with it traces of earlier stages of organization. In the mature healthy individual the homosexual components incident to earlier years are sublimated. Harmony and friendship exist between men as a result. It is noticeable how under the influence of alcohol a return to some forms of homosexual activity are present. Again one hears of sadistic and masochistic activities released by alcohol. Still another instinct