louse, I muttered between my teeth, while within me my conscience grieved at having wounded and insulted. those who were the wretched expression of my dearest treasure: Homosexuality."

Genet's poetry has yet to be translated, which, alas, should be a black mark on the publishing world. With sentences like: The word balls is a roundness in my mouth. /My pride has been colored with the crimson of my shame/The absence of the hand was as real and effective as a royal attribute, as the hand of justice. We will sadly have to wait to see his real poetry.

"Only the German police in Hitler's time, succeeded in being both Police and Crime." This audit of modern times is distinctly his by having been in prisons from Czechoslovakia to Italy, Spain to Germany with "habitual criminal" on his head in France. He has been in and out of crime: thief, robber, prostitute, opium smuggler, counterfeiter, etc. His brotherhood of beggars, pimps, prostitutes, queens, thieves are friends. And his friends are his lovers. This book is not full of sexual, oral or anal symbols: per se it is one gigantic phallic symbol being waved by Genet at modern society: I am a Homosexual: I am a thief.

His underworld is his own. You will have to live it with him, should you read Genet's Journal.

paul mariah

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TRIEBWELT (Controlling or directive elements in the realm of motivation). Studies and investigations into the interrelation between hormone, constitution, psyche, and sexuality by Professor, Medical Doctor, Doctor R. Cernea, Mailand. 1965, pp. 288, 8vo, linen.

In order to anticipate directly: The book is distinguished for its kindly humanity and sympathetic understand-

ing. The author emphasizes the necessity of a complete medical view in the treatment of neuro-vegetative illnesses and this principle is observable as a leitmotiv in the different chapters of the highly interesting book, whether reporting on neuroses, homosexuality, impotence, frigidity, transvestism, or other disturbances. It will give an overview of the intermeshing of the internal secretion and vegetative aspects of the nervous system. In the case of vegetative disturbances it is quite important to have a real contact (a "mental liking or preference") between physician and patient.

Between the vegetative-neural and the hormonal system there exist many combinations with differing possibilities of control or direction. Thus the treatment beside hormone-therapy also includes mental care. In the hormonal treatment of disturbed neurotics the changing of emotional attitude and life orientation is essential. Between the vegetative system (vegetative nerves plus internal secretions) and the vascular system there exists a narrow relationship, which under certain circulatory conditions become observable and may be called Anguish. (Angst) Thus the condition is described in the case of some neuroses and sexual anomalies and the corresponding therapy is indicated in so far as such is possible. The hormone component of the treatment, which the author deems very important, is mostly made up from the combined dosage of hormones from both sexes (since normally every person produces gonad hormones of the other sex.)

The author emphasizes essentially his experience of many years that the natural combined internal secretion hormone is always the one to choose. The synthetic hormone has only a transitory effect while the full extract, it is true, is somewhat slower in its action, but comes closer to having a permanent effect, being the result of

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