ABSTRACT
Two years after the Berlin Polyclinic’s move to its new premises, a monograph, with a new preface by Freud, was published to mark the institute’s tenth anniversary. The category of homosexuality was isolated as such, but only from the moment that this sexual orientation had become the subject of the patient's complaint. Karl Abraham in turn devoted himself to the study of character formation. In addition to the analysis of resistances, the topics for discussion included the study of successes and failures in psychoanalysis, criteria for healing, attempts to draw up a typology of neuroses according to resistances and the question of prognosis. For Reich, the economic point of view led to considerations concerning the political order. There was nothing but misery, loneliness, the gossip of the neighbors, worries about the next meal – and, on top of it all, there were the criminal chicaneries of her landlord and employer.
