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bird that has a gay exterior has an internal 

 system likewise gay, and he parades and 

 makes a show and indulges in actions and 

 habits in accord with his bright color. 

 "Did we ever see a sparrow which perked 

 and minced and flirted as a robin is wont 

 to do? I doubt it; and if we did, the 

 whole thing would appear ridiculous on 

 the part of the sparrow. The sparrow has 

 no equivalent to a scarlet patch in his 

 central nervous system and to behave as 

 though he had would be incongruous and 

 absurd." 



Reginald, the Office Boy, says that: 

 "In that regard the bird would appear to 

 resemble the scientists who propound 

 such a theory." But we do not agree. 

 Whatever Prof. Wood Jones writes is sure 

 to be original and stimulating, and we are 

 all for him on that account. Time will 

 tell whether his theories are right or not, 

 and in the meantime we render thanks that 

 there are still a few scientific men able and 

 willing to say something original. 



SELECTED PAPERS OF KARL ABRA- 

 HAM, M.D. 



Translated by Douglas Bryan and Alix 

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Karl Abraham was the first true psycho- 

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 members of the International Association, 

 and after 1913 led the opposition against 

 Jung. When the latter resigned, he was 

 appointed provisional president, and in 

 19x4 was elected to the regular presidency, 

 to which he was reelected in 19x5 . In his 

 death, the same year, at the age of forty- 



eight, psychoanalysis suffered the most 

 severe personal loss of its history. 



This volume contains all of his impor- 

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 English, except his study on Amenhotep. 

 There is the usual abundance of reference 

 to such subjects as anal character, oral 

 eroticism, coprophilia, mother's bowel, 

 etc., etc., etc., which for the innocent 

 reviewer, not yet attuned to the beauties 

 of the psychoanalytic mythology, makes 

 depressing reading. 



A bibliography and index are included. 



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