Revue Française de Psychanalyse

Odier, Ch. Obsessional Neurosis.

Morgenstein, S. Psychogenic Mutism.

Allendy, R. Inferiority: Homosexuality and Castration Complex.

Freud, S. The Three Caskets.

Broughton, L. R. Delves. Analytic Views on the Life of Bees and Termites.

Obsessional Neurosis.—This article is a report given by Odier at the second Conference of Psychoanalysts of the French language on the 24th of July, 1927. Its object is to separate and classify for future discussion hysteria, phobia and the obsessional neurosis, all of which prior to Freud have been grouped under one head. After giving a nosographical history of these types, the author attempts by means of clinical cases to show how they differ in their psychodynamic mechanization, and in conclusion proposes a table of classification as a basis for future discussion. I should think of primary importance to French psychoanalysts only.

Psychogenic Mutism.—A case of psychogenetic mutism in a boy of nine and a half years. A history of the case offers nothing unusual, Oedipus complex, castration fear, marked antipathy to the father; the exposé is most interesting. Jaques, a boy with pronounced schizoid inheritance on the maternal side, had not spoken to his father for a year and had not uttered a single word for four months prior to his entrance to l'Hôpital Pasteur. He had a marked predeliction for drawing and it was by means of his designs that the author was able to carry out the analysis. His first drawings showed a small boy regarding a man with terror and apprehension, then a man killing a boy and he himself

killed by a soldier, man with a knife chasing small boy, cut off heads and arms, fantastic birds, a woman crying for help, boy with stomach cut out, finally picture of a double operation, one undoubtedly representation of coitus, other castration. For a short time Jaques wet his bed and soiled his clothes; designs showed marked preoccupation with the functions of excretion and the confusion of the sexual with the urinary