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A Devil Neurosis in the Seventeenth Century. SIGM. FREUD.
The Biologic Significance of Psychic Processes. Da. FRANZ ALEXANDER.
A Psychoanalytic Study of the Holy Ghost. ERNEST JONES.
Psychoanalysis of the Black Mass. RUDOLF LÖWENSTEIN.
After the Death of the Primal Father. DR. Géza Róheim.
Two Contributions to Investigation of Symbols. DR. KARL ABRAHAM.
Phallus Processions of Today. E. K.
The Fifth Commandment. DR. SÁNDOR RADÓ.
1. A Devil Neurosis in the Seventeenth Century.—Freud regards a report from the seventeenth century of a pact with the devil and release from it through the Virgin Mary as a rare opportunity to examine a neurosis in a particularly manifest form. The report came to his hand in a twofold document: the story as compiled in Latin by the monkish scribe at the scene of the release, and as told in German in the patient's own diary, also preserved at this spot. The man was a painter of pictures who came to this Mariazell [Cell of Mary] with a letter from a certain pastor stating that he had been overtaken by violent attacks in church and had confessed that he had made a pact with the Devil nine years earlier that he would be the latter's true son and at the end of the period submit himself to the Devil body and soul. The Devil had tempted him nine times to the making of this pact, appearing at a time when the artist was suffering a severe depression because of the death of his father, finding himself unable to work, and being sorely concerned as to his livelihood. It is attested that the man, Christoph Haitzmann, on the birthday of the Virgin received back in the chapel the pact which he had made, the Devil appearing to him in the form of a winged dragon. The religious document frankly states that the cure that then took place was not a lasting one. The painter returned to Vienna, lived with his sister, and was again the subject of pronounced mental attacks, convulsions, absences, visions, and so on; he said also that the Devil tempted him in