ABSTRACT
The starting-point of Szondi's investigations was the observation that man is attracted by persons who show similar symptoms to one or another of his ancestors. The similarity between this latter description and Szondi's is obvious. In the course of his investigations, Szondi had to extend his original notions still further to embrace phenomena not identical with, but only related to, the too narrow field of pathological entities. Such a procedure is certainly justified. Szondi thinks that the difference is likely to be due to factors other than the genes. Szondi rightly finds that some people unconsciously offer themselves to be murdered; in several such cases he could show that the victim and the murderer were gene-related. The operotropic effects of the recessive genes, that are the choice of the profession, are most important for the further development of Szondi's theories.
