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Most of the contributions in this number have appeared in a volume of the Internationaler Zeitschrift fur Psychoanalyse (Vol. IS, Nos. 2, 3) and have already been abstracted from that source—see PSYCHOANALYTIC REVIEW. A few not heretofore abstracted are dealt with here.
5. Brill, A. A. Unconscious Insight: Some of Its Manifestations (145-161).
12. Oberndorf, C. P. Submucous Resection as a Castration Symbol (228-241).
13. Rickman, John. On Quotations (242-269).
14. Sharpe, E. The Impatience of Hamlet (270-279).
24. Van Schelven, Th. Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis (357-362). Bibliography of Scientific Publications of Ernest Jonesj' M.D.
5. Brill, A. A. Unconscious Insight.—Neuroses and psychoses are fortresses erected to protect the individual from pain or displeasure. In the psychosis more particularly the walls are thick; the resistances are great and the dereistic (autistic) state is difficult to modify. Dr. Brill by case history sketches would offer some illustrations tending to show that “unconscious insight” may exist. At times, in the most severe cases, a part of the situation is permitted to come to reality expression. The first patient, much attached to a tuberculous brother, tended him at his death. At first she responded by much weeping, then behaved as if the brother had not died, and she persisted in this schizoid state for several months. She stayed at home, mooned around, and paid no attention to anyone who would try to assure her of the true state of things. When Dr. Brill told her firmly her brother had died, she screamed with vehement denial. At times, however, there were tears. These represented the real situation which now and then broke through the repression. She recovered after a year. Another case of a twenty-year-old girl, somnambulist, who during one night seance almost choked her mother to death. She carried out the wishes to be elsewhere. She was never violent to the father. He was always able to lead her back to bed without