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These two monographs by the same author represent a healthy growth of interest in the psychoanalytic concepts in South America. The first monograph consisting of nine chapters begins with a brief well organized historical survey of the philosophic, psychologic, scientific and pedagogic background and development of the psychoanalytic movement with its relations to other systems of thought.
This is followed by a description of the now well known freudian fundamentals with their various hypotheses, theories and laws. One chapter is devoted largely to Adler's organ inferiority, masculine-feminine balance and “aggressive” instinct theories with their bearings on pedagogic problems, and another to the viewpoints of the school represented by Jung and his pupils.
Following these more general orientations the author presents specific topics. He describes infantile sexuality with the phases and various stages, of libido development, the castration complex, the (Edipus situation, masturbation, marital discord, and some pathologic conditions, with case notes from the literature to illustrate a number of points. The last two chapters are given to comments on the practice of psychoanalysis, and the value of the analytic viewpoint for the educator. The advantage of analytic knowledge to teachers in the understanding of their work and special difficulties is brought into the foreground. There is a glossary of sixty-two principal psychoanalytic terms.
The second monograph contains a large amount of information that should be valuable to anthropologists and ethnologists as well as to psychologists, and sociologists. The material is presented in an introduction in which the general aspects of the negro problem in North America is discussed from several angles, and a background given for the subjects described in the body of the book, and in two parts.
The first part considers expressions, development, and apparent significance of primitive religions, cults and special negro fetishism in