International Journal Of Psycho-Analysis

Jones, Ernrst. The Psychology of Quislingism.

Reik, Theodor. Aggression from Anxiety.

Blanco, Lgnacio Matte. On the Introjection and the Process of Psychic Metabolism.

Strachey, Alix. A Note on the Use of the Word “Inrernal.”

Pailthorpe, G. W. Primary Process of the Infantile Mind Demonstrated Through the Analysis of a Prosr-Poem.

Menniinger, Kari A. Psychogenic Influences on the Appearencd of the Menstrual Period.

Untranslated Freud.

Jones, Ernest The Psychology of Quislingism.—Jones describes types representing stages in the development of Quislingism. All of them indicate either denial or else approval of the aggressiveness of the enemy, but the important point is that there is a curious connection between these two attitudes of denying and approving. At one end of the scale we have a person, perhaps a slum dweller, who says he would be no worse off under the Nazis, and that it makes no difference to him who governs the country. Then we have the escapist who used to be sure that there would be no war, though still more sure there need be no war, and maintained that it could be avoided either by talking matters over reasonably with the opponent or by the subjects on both sides refusing to fight: what this person refused to believe was that the opponent was determined to force a fight. A next step is shown by the man who admitted the presence of a certain amount of aggressiveness in the Nazi regime, but thought that this degree was so small that it could be allayed by giving it some vent, i.e., by the policy of appeasement. Such a man was particularly sensitive to the possibility of increasing the aggressiveness by provocation. We come then to the man who admitted aggressiveness but held that it was mainly justified. This moral justification can pass over into actual admiration, such as that of the man who says “We could do with a bit of Hitler here” or is impressed by the efficiency and positive achievements of the Nazi regime. Even so the transit