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Mueller-Braunschweig, CARL. Contribution to Metapsychology.

Van Der Chijs, A. On Unisonance in Composition.

Juer, Franziska, and Marbach, Otto. South Slavic Parallels to the Original Myth Type of the Roland-Saga.

Hermann, Imre. Prototype of the Oedipus and Castration Complexes in Apes.

Lowtzky, F. An Occult Confirmation of Psychoanalysis.

Wolffheim, Nelly. On the Psychology of the Modern Educator.

Friedjung, Josef. The œdipus Complex in a Fever Delirium of a Girl Nine Years Old.

Contribution to Metapsychology.—Mueller-Braunschweig examines the topical dynamic and economic mechanisms of narcissistic and of sexual libido in relation to sublimation and identification. Freud in the Ego and the Id has described processes by which, through indentification with the object, the object libido becames narcissistic, that is nonsexual libido, saying that this desexualization may be called sublimation and that all sublimation takes place in this way through the mediation of the ego. In connecting desexualization with definite processes of indemnification, Mueller-Braunschweig notes, it cannot be said that the origin of non-sexual libido is entirely explained. The nature of identification, so clearly recognized in its various manifestations, is unknown in essence. Only an “as if” can be posited. It is “as if” it were a derivative of the oral libido organization. In the process the ego acts “as if” incorporates the object. Perhaps, however, the problem may be approached in another way. In calling non-sexual libido qualitatively indifferent, Freud doubtless wishes to emphasize that it is distinguished from all sorts of sexual libido, oral, anal, genital, or that belonging to any other organ or part of the body. Mueller-Braunschweig would characterize narcissistic libido as only relatively without quality. It might be assumed that sexual and non-sexual love spring from the same root—namely from what Freud calls the cell-libido. From this root one branch has deveoped into or