International Journal of Psycho-Analysis

1. jones, ernest. The Concept of a Normal Mind.

2. heimann, paula. A Contribution to the problem of Sublimation and Its Relation to Processes of Internalization.

3. glover, edward. Notes on the Psychological Effect of War Conditions on the Civilian Population. (3. The “Blitz.”)

1. jones, ernest. The Concept of a Normal Mind. Where there is pronounced illness one does not have to ponder on careful definitions of normality. Terms of the sort all beg the question by assuming that something, e.g., efficiency or health, has been previously defined when in fact it has not. It is much more difficult in character analysis. There is a difference between the statistically normal mind and the psychologically healthy mind; this latter quoted from Trotter. felt that western civilization was built on an attitude towards life characteristic of a particular form of obsessional neurosis. Nowadays in patients consulting for social disharmony, one is often astonished to observe how a comparatively good functioning of the personality can exist with an extensive neurosis, or even psychosis, that is not manifest. The state of balance may be unsuspectedly precarious. The customary definitions of normality involve happiness, efficiency in mental functioning and a positive social feeling-relationship. The degree of friendliness and affection is to be estimated by the internal freedom of such feelings rather than by the quantity of them that may be manifest; this inner freedom will be found to be accompanied by a slowness of response to hostility or even to opposition. As for what passes for sublimation, much of it is really displacement. In sublimation the external activity or interest has a greater significance than the original unconscious source and the nature of the energy has undergone some qualitative change. The attribute of happiness is probably the most important of the three. This is a combination of the capacity for enjoyment with self-content; there is no unconscious guilt