Internationale Zeitschrift für Psychoanalyse

Nunberg, H. Homosexuality, Magic, and Aggression.

Payne, S. M. The Conception of Femininity.

Sterba, R. Psychic Trauma and Management of the Transference.

Bálint, A. The Management of the Transference on the Basis of Ferenczi's Experience.

Benedek, T. The Overvalued Idea and Its Relation to Drug Addiction.

Almásy, E. The Psychoanalysis of Amentia-Like Cases.

Nunberg, H. Homosexuality, Magic and Aggression. The homosexual act represents a triumph over the male—the father. In making a woman of his male sexual partner the homosexual feels himself male—able to possess the mother. This serves as a compensation for injured narcissism and as a fortification of the ego. Through fulfillment of the homosexual wishes an increase of self-consciousness arises, an infantile feeling of omnipotence and with it a feeling that a magic power streams from the personality. It is well known that overvaluation of the ego is characteristic of paranoia and also that homosexuality has significance in paranoia. Another characteristic which these two disturbances have in common is aggression. By comparison of various homosexual cases (non-psychotic) in his experience Nunberg found that the aggression is not expressed merely in the choice of object, but that it is a general characteristic of this type. On many sides the view is held that the relation between paranoia and homosexuality is disproved by

deeper criticism, because the paranoid projects, the homosexual does not. It is true that projection is one of the most prominent characteristics of paranoia, but Nunberg finds that this mechanism also plays an important role in homosexuality, especially in certain types where the object is chosen on the model of the mother-love. In the case which Nunberg has selected for detailed description the patient projects his ideal; he wishes to be a big, strong man. He loves this ideal and seeks it in the outer world. That he succeeds from time to time in finding this ideal in reality probably