existence of an extreme sexual curiosity, connected with certain very definite problems, was discovered. The libido, imprisoned in this phantastical labyrinth, was brought back into useful application by means of the psychological explanation of the incorrect infantile phantasies. The child thus got an insight into her own attitude towards reality with all its possibilities. The result was that she was able to take an objective-critical attitude towards her immature puberty-desires, and was able to give up these and all other impossibilities in favor of the use of her libido in possible directions, in her work and in obtaining the good-will of her teacher. In this case, analysis brought great peace of mind, as well as a pronounced intellectual improvement. After a short time her teacher himself stated that the little girl was one of the best pupils in her class. I hope that by the exposition of this brief instance of the course of an analysis, I have succeeded in giving you an insight not only into the concrete procedure of treatment, and into the technical difficulties, but no less into the beauty of the human mind and its endless problems. I intentionally brought into prominence the parallelism with mythology, to indicate the universally possible applications of psychoanalysis. At the same time, I should like to refer to the further importance of this position. We may see in the predominance of the mythological in the mind of a child, a distinct hint of the gradual development of the individual mind out of the collective knowledge or the collective feeling of earliest childhood, which gave rise to the old theory of a condition of perfect knowledge before and after individual existence. In the same way we might see, in the marvellous analogy between the phantasies of dementia præcox and mythological symbolisms, a reason for the widespread superstition that an insane person is possessed of a demon, and has some divine knowledge. With these hints, I have reached the present standpoint of investigation, and I have at least sketched those facts and working hypotheses which are characteristic for my present and future work. Footnote 11: “Wandlungen und Symbole der Libido,” Wien, 1912. Footnote 12: Abraham, “Dreams and Myths,” No. 15 of the Monograph Series. Footnote 13: “Dreams and Myths,” No. 15 of the Monograph Series. INDEX Abreagieren, 5 Actual conflict, 92, 93 Actual present, 81 Adaptation, failure of, 83 Amnesia, infantile, 78 Analysis of dreams, 60, 109 Analysis of transference, 105 Association-experiment, 66 Breuer, 5 Cathartic method, 6 Change in the theory of psychoanalysis, 5 Charcot, 5 Child, neurosis in, 113 Childhood, sexual trauma in, 10 Complex, Electra, 69 Complex, Oedipus, 67 Complex, incest, 70 Complex of the parents, 50 Conception of libido, 27 Conception of sensitiveness, 89 Conception of sexuality, 19