Revue Franchise de Psychanalyse

Freud, S. The Tabu of Virginity.

Odier, CH. Freud's Theory of Energy and Its Evolution.

Leuba, DR. J. The Rapid Analysis of an Anxiety Neurosis at the Base of Which Was the Castration Complex.

Bonaparte, Marie. Man and His Dentist.

Freud, S. The Tabu of Virginity.—See Collected Papers, Hogarth Press, Vol. IV.

Odier, CH. Freud's Theory of Energy and Its Evolution.—In this article Odier attempts to give an idea of Freud's theory of energy and of its evolution. He begins by refuting the criticism that Freud has destroyed or undermined human ideals and morals. Freud's method, he says, has demanded that he treat the above as quantities rather than as qualities and he has always evaluated them as such, endeavoring the while to discover from whence they sprung.

Very early in his studies Freud formulated the concept that emotions were the result of a primal urge of the organism and the resulting tension which said organism tried to reduce. He put forth the idea of the libido and ego instincts. Further observation corrected his conception of the ego; there followed his theory of two principle instincts, life and death, instinct of love and instinct of aggression, the former serving the pleasure principle (reduction of tension) and conservation, the latter, the principle of repetition-compulsion and annihilation. In all human endeavor there is a happy fusion of these two instincts, in perversions, neuroses and psychoses, a more or less dangerous defusion. The analyst then distinguishes three kinds of energy (1) the libido (narcissistic and objectal), (2) death urge, (3) instinct of conservation. The first two operate at the Id level, the last two at the Ego level. About the origin of the energy used in thought and other evolved activities, psychoanalysis has not as yet much to say except that the narcissistic libido plays the greatest part in thinking.

Leuba, Dr. J. The Rapid Analysis of an Anxiety Neurosis at the Base of which Was the Castration Complex.—This is the