International Journal of Psycho-Analysis

Glover, E.: Lectures on Technique of Psychoanalysis (311-338), to be continued.

Klein, Melanie; Riviere, Joan; Searl, M. N.; Sharpe, Ella F.; Glover, Edward; And Jones, E.: Symposium on Child Analysis (339-391).

Freud, Sigm.; Eitingon, M.: Concluding Remarks on Lay Analysis (392-401).

Shorter Communications. Dream in H. C. Japanese Novel, R. J. Mack; Scent in a Symptomatic Act, D. Bryan; Slips of Tongue in Medieval English Literature, G. M. Rutter.

Technique of Psychoanalysis. Dr. E. Glover here begins a series of very illuminating lectures on the psychoanalytic technique. He opens with remarks in the analytic situation in which he would specially stress the analyst's position. It is more important first to deal with the patient's

transference or resistance or to stress the analyst's counter-transference and/or counter-resistance. He advocates keeping both in view. So far as material is concerned he is free from bias, so far as handling it his own subjectivism must be realized. As to perfectly analyzed persons, no one ever gets rid of his id and there is no such person. Training analysis and therapeutic analysis are the same. An individual's own analysis should not be a servile model for other analyses. Many analysts are such because of antecedent mental conflicts. Such have a tendency to follow out analyses fitted for their own type. Even fairly well adjusted individuals (normals) are not entirely free from similar tendencies. Omnipotence and inferiority phantasies are alike to be recognized. The first case of the young analyst (for these lectures were planned for such) is apt to be surrounded by anticipations of difficulties as in all other technical situations. Too great systematization should be avoided. Slips should not be “muzzled on the mat” as so frequently appears among pseudo and amateur analysts in mixed company who immediately “know” what a slip “means”. Similarly dreams must be dealt with not as isolated operation opportunity. To attempt