The annual meeting of the Society of Psychotherapy, founded by our eminent friend Doctor Edgar Bérillon, takes place today, under the presidency of Doctor Charles Fiessinger, corresponding member of the Academy of Medicine. All the questions on the agenda relate to Freudianism, the trial of which was already carried out a few months ago, in a masterly and, in a way, definitive way, by our former Faculty comrade, Dr. Paul Hartenberg, who is now one of the most distinguished neurologists in Paris.
With the authority conferred on him by his reputation, his talent and his work, Paul Hartenberg, at the Congress of Alienists held in Besançon last August, intervened during the discussion to show both the absurdity and the dangers of the theory built by the Boche doctor Freud, and which has many followers in German-speaking countries, particularly in Switzerland. The day after the Besançon Congress, we devoted, here, an entire column to this theory, called psychoanalysis, but more often referred to as Freudism, from the very name of its inventor, the Viennese Freud, and we have then indicate the essential characteristics.
Let us recall that, for Freud, the origin of human actions would be sexual desire. All the arts, literature, poetry, music, painting, sculpture, etc., most social institutions, individual conduct would derive from sexuality. Freud insists on the importance of sexuality in the child, even the child at the breast... We must, for reasons that will be understood, stick to a discreet sketch of this frightening theory, in a newspaper that passes necessarily in all hands.
It cannot be denied that Freudianism, infiltrating public opinion, was an agent of obscenity and demoralization. It is therefore not only absurd; he is dangerous in the first place; he corrupts,
under the pretext of healing; it obsesses with fatal sexual concerns the imagination of people who are introduced to the practices of psychoanalysis. So in America young girls have a manual for finding the sensual meaning of their dreams. We thus create neurotics who end up being prey, literally, to erotic delirium.
We understand, in these conditions, that Doctor Paul Hartenberg, taking the French point of view, declared that he was fighting Freudianism because he considered it a national danger. All the newspapers which reported on the work of the Marès of Besançon reported the energetic and decisive intervention of the distinguished neurologists, the urloogist errors of all countries, the errors the harmfulness of Freudism.
This could not be fought with more vigor, although it has achieved, so far, very little success in France. On the contrary, he aroused numerous and enthusiastic followers in all Germanic countries in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and also in England and North America. We can say that, among us, the hostility was almost unanimous, as was shown this afternoon at the meeting of the Society of Psychotherapy, Doctor Paul Fares, who, in a remarkable communication , endeavored to indicate the causes of all repugnance of the French mind for Freudianism; Doctors Ch. Fiessinger, Brillon, Voivenel, Laumonier, and others also took part in the discussion and tested a theory on which its author grafted a kind of therapeutic method, the clearest result of which is to draw strong attention to a question which already obsesses the restless imagination of adolescents only too much.

PAUL MATHIEX.