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Jekels, Ludwig, and Bergler, Edmund. Transference and Love.

Bernfeld, Siegfried. The Gestalt Theory.

Sachs, Hanns. The Delay of the Machine Age.

Grant Duff, J. F. Snow White. A Psychoanalytic Interpretation.

Wolff, Werner. A Research Report. Foundation of an Experimental Psychology of the Unconscious.

Jekels And Bergler. Transference and Love. The writers explain love as the ego-ideal projected on an object and then reintrojected, being in the process liberated from the “demon” which represents the feeling of guilt. The result is the triumph of Eros over Thanatos. From the fact that the object has attracted the exuberant energy of the ego-ideal arises that characteristic of love to overstep all reason and logical thought and that overvaluation of the love object which borders on madness. At the foundation of object love is the desire of the personal ego to be loved; the avid ego finds the object worthy to be a substitute for its own ego-ideal—the most precious of all things. This conception implies that love represents an effort to reëstablish narcissistic unity and completeness of the personality (in early years appearing as feeling of omnipotence), which the ego felt was threatened by the feeling of guilt, the “demon.” That love results from the feeling of guilt is attested by the manner in which the transference takes place under the pressure of guilt, without preference of any special object, irrespective of the age, the sex, or the personal qualities of the object (the analyst), and many times suddenly and impetuously. The neurotic is disarmed and conquered from the start and has yielded completely to the disrupting “demon”; the object is not only an object of love, but also, and perhaps to a greater degree, an object of fear. In love, on the other hand, there is arduous wooing and striving by every possible means to preserve the ego-ideal and the integrity of the personality. “There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear, because fear