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This is a new journal in German devoted entirely to psychoanalytic topics, appearing in compact folios bimonthly under the editorship of A. J. Storfer (Vienna). An introduction states that its purpose will extend beyond professional analytic topics, so that non-analysts with an intellectual interest in the science, may be kept informed of its progress. The Table of Contents shows how well this purpose is fulfilled by the variety of its subject matter, consisting for the most part of original articles of less than a half dozen pages, reviews, and comments; and by the variety of contributors, which include well known analysts, philosophers, and preeminent novelists. Some articles are scientific, some are in the field of application of analysis to non-medical culture, and some are about analysis as seen by those in other professions. Various events of interest in the “psychoanalytic movement” are reported. Current criticisms of psychoanalysts are noted, often without dialectic commentary.
Thomas Mann. Die Stellung Frends in der Modernen Geistes-geschichte (The Position of Freud in the History of Modern Culture).— This German recipient of the Nobel Prize inscribes a profoundly understanding and philosophical essay in honor of Freud. He finds his greatest interest in that work which is least medical, “Totem and Taboo,” and considers its artistic qualities make it a “piece of world literature.” This book is the fulfillment of Nietzsche's prophecy, that an intellectual revolution was about to demonstrate that the materialism of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries of German science and the maudlin Romanticism of literature, had exhausted its possibilities. Though it arise from primary medical interests, psychoanalysis has transformed the course of culture, reinstating appraisal of the soul. The essayist com