Revue Française de Psychanalyse

S. Freud. Fragment of an Analysis of Hysteria (Dora).

R. Loewenstein. The Psychoanalytic Technique.

Edward Pichon. Position of the Problem of Reciprocal Adaptation Between Society and Exceptional Psychisms.

Fragment of an Analysis of Hysteria.—Found in Collected Works, Hogarth Press.

The Psychoanalytic Technique.—This was originally a report given at the third conference of psychoanalysts of the French language, July 20, 1928. It is a short recital of the general, elementary and fundamental notions of psychoanalytical technique for the benefit of French students. After a short history of the Freudian movement beginning with the cathartic method as practiced by Freud and Breuer, through Freud's discovery by means of suggestion, and later free association of resistance, repression, and infantile sexuality, thus changing the concept of the neurosis from one of accumulative power of an injury to a compromise between repressed unconscious tendencies of a sexual and infantile nature and tendencies of the ego, and the aim of the cure from abreaction to attempt to render conscious the events and tendencies repressed in order that the conscious ego may succeed against them, M. Loewenstein gives the fundamental rule of psychoanalysis, i.e., having the patient say whatever comes into his head without criticism, and concludes with the roles resistance and transfer play in the treatment. Resistance he defines as anything which impedes the progress of the analysis, and in the matter of transfer he stresses the importance of objectivity on the part of the analyst.

Position of the Problem of Reciprocal Adaptation Between Society and the Exceptional Psychisms.—Because of the harmful and undesirable consequences of making everyone conform to a certain norm as well as the relativity of the term madness, it can be seen that it is the duty of society to tolerate as much individual diversity as possible and to refrain from treating as mad people with exaggerated individuality