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Howe, E. Graham. The Science of Error. Pp. 1-22.
Lundholm, Helge. Repression and Rationalization. Pp. 23-50.
Kruger, M. S. Pleasure and Pain and the Emotions. Pp. 51-62.
Money-Kyrle, Roger. A Psycho-Analytic Study of the Voices of Joan of Arc. Pp. 63-81.
Reviews.
Howe, E. Graham. The Science of Error.—Freud's conceptions having invigorated and enriched the countless fields of psychology, the author would start out with much guess-work and a little knowledge and search for some common denominator to simplify the way to psychological understanding. The individually working analyst has always his finger on the transference but what can be done about the great protean masses of unconscious prejudice, resistance and rationalization shown by the public. How can public opinion be reached that mental health be conserved? He offers some lines of attack by defining or classifying error. There is “my truth”, “your truth” and “the truth”. In all the philosophies, meanings or values or motives are more or less lacking. The “wish being father to the thought” must be held as axiomatic, and any discipline that neglects it is partly false. The author's classification of error is as follows: (1) Limited sensibility; (2) Wish fulfilment; (3) Externalization; (4) Recapitulation; (5) False association; (6) Time factor, and (7) Balance of opposing- couples. Under the first he includes false impressions, absence of senses, and pseudo-reality. Under false associations we find simple transfer of feeling to similars, transfer from whole to part or part to whole, transfer of feeling to symbols. A final section of this interesting essay deals with some general principles of psychotherapy.
Lundholm, H. Repression and Rationalisation.—A discussion on purely abstract lines of no special significance in clinical or theoretical psychoanalysis
Kruger, M. S. Pleasure and Pain and the Emotions.—The author in this paper, which is not psychoanalytic, would show somewhat as follows: Pleasure an