Die medizinische Forschung und Lehre an der Universität Dorpat/Tartu 1802-1940

the value and scientific status of psychoanalytic interpretations. Certainly, among those who have doubts on this score, much of what Gilman has to say will seem ill-grounded in the evidence, and often no more than wildly speculative. For some, such claims as the following: "During the rise of modernism, from the fin de siecle to the collapse of the Nazi state (and beyond), the black, whether male or female, came to represent the genitalia through a series of analogies . . ." (pp. 109-110); or: "urination in the late nineteenth century mind leads to fantasy of the buttocks . . ." will seem insightful and helpful. Others, myself included, will find the assertions cavalier and the evidence adduced in their support wholly inadequate.