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Freud, S. A Letter by Freud as Youth.
Róheim, G. The Psychoanalytic Interpretation of Culture.
Friedländer, K. Charlotte Brontë: About the Masochistic Character.
Isaac-Edersheim, E. Messias, Golem, Ahasver. Three Mythical Figures in the Hebrew Culture. I. The Messias.
1. Freud, S. A Letter by Freud as Youth.—It was written at night by the 17-years-old Freud to a friend and it deals with the outcome of his baccalaureate examination (Matura) and his reaction to it. He calls it “martyrdom” and yet: “The Matura is dead, vive the Matura!” His philosophical musings and his style in composition were already characteristic and, somehow sensing his future accomplishments, he advised his friend to bundle up all his writings and to take good care of them because “one can never tell,” therefore this letter preserved by the addressee for 60 years, reaches us now.
2. Róheim, G. The Psychoanalytic Interpretation of Culture.—It contains (1) The primitive tribe (Urhorde), (2) The ontogenetic theory