[Stress and panic. Psychoanalytic aspects].

In 1956, Selye described the reactions of the human body when confronted to an aggression. The psychoanalytic point of view was much anterior to Selye's researches and works, provided a wider perspective for a better understanding of the different ways a patient would react when facing a "stressing event". Freud brought out the concept of the "psychic trauma" whose origin might be due to a precocious process of sexual seduction.

[René Allendy, or the evolution of a misunderstanding].

The publication of the correspondence between Sigmund Freud and René Laforgue clarifies the conditions of the development of psychoanalysis in France. Freud's cautiousness towards French psychoanalysts is immediately apparent. It rests on what Freud perceives as a lack of respect for the founding principles of his work.