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2. The technique of psycho-analysis and its relation to hypnotism as means 
of overcoming repressions. 
3. A comparison of the views of Pierre Janet, Sigmund Freud, and C. G. 
Jung on the nature of the psycho-neuroses. ; 
4. Brief report of a case of an extensive amnesia of long standing cured by 
psycho-analysis and hypnotism. 
8. The Analysis of some Personal Dreams, with reference to Current 
Theories of Dream-Interpretation. By T. H. Pear, B.Sc, 
This Paper dealt with the following matters :— 
Freud’s theory of the dream mechanism. 
The censorship of consciousness, mental conflicts, repression, the uncon- 
scious. 
The ‘manifest content’ and the ‘latent content’ of dreams. 
The dream-work. The processes of distortion and disguise. Condensation, 
symbolism, dramatisation, displacement of interest and emotion, superficial 
association, the play on words. 
The ‘wish theory’ of dreams. The relation between the conscious and the 
unconscious wishes. Objections to the theory. Alternative explanations of the 
dream, and their relation to Freud’s theory. 
An account of some personal dreams. The dream matter traced back to the 
memories which formed its raw material. LIlustrations, in these dreams, of the 
above processes of the dream-work. The ‘meaning’ of these dreams. Is 
Freud’s theory adequate for their explanation? Other possible explanations of 
them. j 
The process of psycho-analysis applied to the dreams. Criticisms of this 
method. Objections to the method of ‘free association.’ The determination 
of the course of association. The investigation of dreams by the dreamer 
himself, and by others. 
9. The Relation of the Emotions to Motor Discharge. 
By Professor G. J. Sroxes, M.A. 
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1’. 
The following Papers were read :— 
1. Colour Perception and Preferences of an Infant at Three Months. 
By C. W. Vatentine, M.A. 
Previous investigators have tested the colour preference of infants by noting 
- the colours which they most frequently seize. By this method, however, one 
cannot test a child before it is about six months old. A series of experiments, 
spread over about four weeks, was carried out with an infant, commencing at 
the age of three months, by a new and simple method, viz.. measuring the 
times during which the child looked at either of two coloured wools held before 
him for two minutes at a time. Nine colours were used; each colour was 
presented with each of the others, and the scores of each were added together. 
Very decided preferences were discovered, the order of preference being as 
follows, starting with the most pleasing : 
Yellow { White, Red { Brown { Green, Violet 
Pink Black | Blue 
The brightest colours were obviously liked best, but neither brightness nor 
novelty can explain the order of preference among Red, Green, Blue, and 
Violet, which were equally bright. It is suggested that colours are preferred at 
this early age, according to their power of stimulating the organism; cf. the 
results of Féré, who found that muscular strength was stimulated most by 
colours at the warm end of the spectrum and least by colours at the cold end. 
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