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Glover, E. Technique of Psychoanalysis.—Glover here continues his instructive lectures: V, on the Transference Neurosis, and VI, the Terminal Phases. With reference to the former, a start is made when he writes: “It is safe to say that at no stage of an analysis are the analyst's reactions, or his convictions about the fundamental truths of psychoanalysis, put to a more severe test than during the stage when the ground of the patient's conflict has been shifted, from external situations or internal maladaptations of a symptomatic sort, to the analytic situation itself.” “The proof of the pudding is the transference.” The difficulties of the opening phases have been surmounted. The patient still comes. An almost imperceptible change now commences to take place—emotional experiences and memories commence to come out, but at the same time the daily work seems more cut and dried and the patient waits more and more for the analyst's sharing in the work. The transference neurosis has begun. Life in the analytic room and the relations with the analyst himself become paramount. Glover formulates the first generalization of the transference neuroses as follows: It differs from the more or less explosive indications of positive arid negative transference as seen in early phases of analysis in that it is liable to pass unnoticed certainly by the patient and in some cases by the analyst. We may add as a rider to these propositions that the main part of the analyst's work is to make this set of unconscious attitudes conscious. “Now it is your time to talk” and the unconscious desire for more active signs of giving of libido—i.e.,