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This research paper presents a case history of a man in his late twenties, and analyzes the case psychologically. The man, from his late teens had a difficulty in relating to women. He was a bright scholar and on leaving the university started a career in the diplomatic sphere, furthered this with considerable success during his war service, and found himself returned to civil life with good prospects and considerable status at the age of twenty-five. He talked of his fear of returning to his work and his shame at having had a breakdown. By analyzing the dreams of this patient, this paper focuses upon the significance of the latent homosexual orientation of symptom-formation, its influence upon the transference, and in particular on the part it plays in the therapeutic process.

The history of psychology has seen a shift from Sigmund Freud's psycho-analysis to C.G. Jung's analytical psychology. The emphasis laid on the personal has increasingly shifted to the transpersonal aspect. In contrast to the accentuation of the temporal and personal, Jung discovered the crucial importance of the timeless and transpersonal factors in the psyche-the archetypes-that determine man's development. This research paper combines the aspects of the personal and the transpersonal, the temporal-genetic and the timeless, which have grown too far apart, in an altered picture of man and his development.

The article presents an account of the book "Direct Analysis," by John N. Rosen. The book is a series of papers written by a psychiatrist to illustrate the application of psychoanalysis to psychotics by the direct analysis and interpretation of psychotic unconscious contents. Selected cases are presented with discussion by the author and other psychiatrists.