BIBLIOGRAPHY OF
THEODORE SCHROEDER
ON THE PSYCHOLOGY OF RELIGION AND
THE EROTOGENETIC INTERPRETATION_
OF MYSTICISM
BY
NANCY E. SANKEY.JONES
PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR
COS COB, CONN.
Dec. 30, 1934
A HUNDRED AND SIXTY PERIODICALS IN SIX LANGUAGEs, Have PUB-
lished THEODORE SCHROEDER's PSYCHOLOGICAL, PHILosophical, RELIG-
Ious, MEDICAL, sociological AND LEGAL ESSAYS; *** At the very least,
he is one of the most interesting figures alive in America today.-May-
nard Shipley, Pres. Science League of America, in: The New Humanist,
v. 6, 1933.
Theodore Schroeder's essays on PSYCHOLOGIC subjecTs have ap-
peared, in the following publications:
Aºy LAW JOURNAL, Albany,
* *
ALIENIST AND NEUROLOGIST,
St. Louis, Mo.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EU-
ENICS, Chicago, Ill.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSY-
CHOLOGY, Worcester, Mass.
.AMERICAN JOURNAL OF RELIG-
ſº PSYCHOLOGY, Worcester,
3.SS.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF UROL-
OGY AND SEXOLOGY, New
York, N. Y.
Ağcan MEDICINE, New York,
ARENA, Boston, Mass.
AZOTH, New York, N. Y.
CALIFORNIA LAW REVIEW, Ber-
keley, Calif.
CENTRAL LAW JOURNAL, St.
Louis, Mo.
CRITIC AND GUIDE (Medical),
New York, N. Y.
EVERYMAN, Los Angeles, Calif.
FORUM, New York, N. Y.
FREETHINKER, London, Eng.
IMAGO, Vienna and Leipzig
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF
PSYCHOANALYSIS. London, Eng.
JOURNAL OF ABNORMAL PSY-
CHOLOGY, Boston (then Albany,
N. Y. and Hanover, N. H.
JOURNAL OF NERVOUS AND
MENTAL DISEASE, New York,
N. Y.
JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS PSY-
CHOLOGY AND ANTHROPOL-
OGY, Worcester, Mass.
• JOURNAL OF SEXOLOGY AND
§§hoanalysis New York,
. Y.
LABOR AGE, New York, N. Y.
LIBERAL REVIEW, Chicago, Ill.
MEpical COUNCIL, Philadelphia,
d.
MEDICAL JOURNAL AND REC-
ORD, New York, N. Y. -
MEDICO-LEGAL JOURNAL, New
York, N. Y.
MEDICAL REVIEW OF REVIEWS,
New York, N. Y.
MICHIGAN LAW REVIEW, Ann
Arbor, Mich.
MODERN PSYCHOLOGIST, New
York, N. Y.
Mgpºn THINKER, New York,
. Y.
MONIST, Chicago, Ill
NATIONAL PićtoffAL MONTH-
LY, New York, N
- . Y.
NEW Ygºš DAILY CALL, New
York, N. Y.
NEW YORK MEDICAL JOURNAL,
New York, N. Y.
OPEN COURT, Chicago, Ill.
PACIFIC MEDICAL JOURNAL, San’
Francisco, Calif. &
PROCEEDINGS: XV CONGRE IN-
TERNATIONAL, DE MEDICINE,'
Lisbonne, Portugal
PSYCHE, London, Eng.
PSYCHE AND EROS, New York,
N
. Y.
PSYCHOANALYTIC R E VIEW,
Washington, D. C
SEVEN ARTS, New York, N. Y.
SEXUAL PROBLEME, Frankfurt a.
M., Germany
SOUND’ VIEW, Ollala, Wash.
TRUTH SEEKER, New York, N. Y.
UNITY, Chicago, Ill.
ZEITSCHRIFT FUR RELIGION-
SPSYCHOLOGIE, Leipzig, Germany
ZENTRABLATT FUR PSYCHO-
ANALYSE UND PsychoTHERA-
PIE, Wiesbaden, Germany
THEODORE SCHROEDER ON THE
PSYCHOLOGY OF RELIGION
A Bibliography
By NANCY E. SANKEY-JONES
1904
An odd field of inquiry. Truth Seeker. (New York
City.) 31 (no. 5):70-71; Jan. 30, 1904.
- Part included in: Developing , a working hy-
pothesis on the erotogenesis of religion. Alienist and
Neurologist. (St. Louis.) 34 (no. 4): 444-476; Nov. 1913.
And part in: Religion and sensualism as connected
by clergymen. American Journal of Religious Psychol-
ogy, (Worcester, Mass.) 3 (No. 1): 16–28; May, 1908.
Mainly quotations asserting a psychic co-relation
between religion and sex.
1907
Erotogenesis of religion. Alienist and Neurologist.
(St. Louis.) 28 (no. 3): 330-341; Aug. 1907.
Trans: Erotogenese der Religion. Zeitschrift
für Religions-psychologie (Leipzig.) I (no. II): 445-455;
Mch. 1908. Answered in: 2 (no. 1): 28; May, 1908.
Repub. as: The first religion. Truth Seeker.
(New York City.) 34 (no. 41): 641–643; Oct. 12, 1907.
An academic, abstract discussion of the probable
racial psychogenetics of religion.
First religion. Truth Seeker. (New York City.)
34 (no. 41): 641–643; Oct. 12, 1907.
Same as last item.
1908
Erotogenese der Religion. Zeitschrift für Religion-
Spsychologie. (Leipzig.) 1 (no. 11): 445-455; Mar.
1908.
Trans: The erotogenesis of religion. Alienist
and Neurologist. (St. Louis.) 28 (no. 3): 330-341 : Aug.
1907. See above.
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Sexual determinant in Mormon theology. Alienist
and Neurologist. (St. Louis.) 29 (no. 2): 208-222;
May, 1908.
Abstract: Psychoanalytic Review. (New York
City.) 3 (no. 2): 223-230; April 1916.
Trans: Der sexuelle Anteil an der Theologie der
Mormonen. Imago. (Leipzig u. Wein.) 3 (no. 2): 197-
204; Apr. 1914. Again abstracted in Psychoanalytic Re-
view. 6 (no. 4): 464–467; Oct. 1919.
Part repub. in : Truth Seeker. (New York.) 43
(no. 29): 449-450; July 15, 1916.
Religion and sensualism as connected by clergymen.
American Journal of Religious Psychology. (Wor-
cester, Mass.) 3 (no. 1): 16–28; May, 1908.
Repub. as: Revivals and virtue. (Truth Seeker,
New York City.) 35 (no. 26) : 401–402; June 27, 1908.
Part included in: An odd field of inuiry. Truth
Seeker. (New York City.) 31 (no. 5): 70-71; Jan. 30,
I904.
Abridged trans: Zum Thema: Religion und Sinn-
lichkeit. Sexual Probleme Io (no. 3): 192-198; Mch.
I914.
Cited in: Urological and cutaneous review, 24 (no.
I2): 730, Dec. 1921; Sexology by Dr James G. Kiernan.
A compilation of the opinions of clergymen re-
cording their observation of a connection between sensual-
ism and religious revival experiences.
Revivals and virtue. Truth Seeker. (New York City.)
35 (no. 26): 401–402; June 27, 1908.

Same as last item.
1912
Outline method for a study of the erotogenesis of re-
ligion. American Journal of Religious Psychology.
(Worcester, Mass.) 5 (no. 4): 394-401; Oct. 1912.
Inadequate from present viewpoint.
1913
Matſt]hias the prophet. Journal of Religious Psy-
chology, including its anthropological and sociologi-
cal aspects. (Worcester, Mass.) 6 (no. 1): 59-65;
Jan. 1913.
Republished as per next item.
Exhibits an ert tic motive in the case of a religious
fanatic.
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Story of Matſt]hias ine prophet. Truth Seeker.
(New York City.) 40 (no. 7): 102-103; Feb. 15, 1913.
Same as last item.
Adolescence and religion. Journal of Religious Psy-
chology, including its anthropological and sociologi-
cal aspects. (Worcester, Mass.) 6 (no. 2): 124–148;
Apr. 1913.
Shows that over a wide range of time and space,
religious experience and conversion are peculiarly an
adolescent phenomena and applies the doctrine of evo-
lutionary recapitulation.
Developing a working hypothesis on the erotogenesis
of religion. Alienist and Neurologist. (St. Louis.)
34 (no. 4): 444–476; Nov. 1913.
Partly used in: An odd field of inquiry. Truth
Seeker. (New York City.) 31 (no. 5): 70-71; Jan. 30,
I904.
A compilation of opinions by alienists and his:
torians favorable to the erotogenetic interpretation of
religion, especially in morbidity.
1914
Erotogenetic interpretation of religion. Its oppo-
nents reviewed. Journal of Religious Psychology,
including its anthropological and sociological as-
pects. (Worcester, Mass.) 7 (no. 1): 23-44; Jam.
1914.
Quotes and criticises the adverse opinions of: P.
Naecke, Andrew Lang; Edwin D. Starbuck, Ernest
Crawley, Edward S. Ames, Geo. Cutten, William James.
Wildisbuch crucified saint. Psychoanalytic Review.
(New York City.) 1 (no. 2): 128-148; Feb. 1914.
Trans. as: Die gekreuzigte Heilige von Wildis-
buch. Zentralblatt für Psychoanalyse und Psychother-
apie. (Wiesbaden.) 4 (no. 6-7): " 467-471; June–July
I914.
Gives account of a case where sado-masochist conflict
was worked out in religious frenzy and blood-shed. This
interpretation of the sado-masochist conflict now seems in-
adequate.
Zum Thema: Religion und Sinnlichkeit; Auserungen
von Geistlichen über ihre Zusamenhang. Sexual
Probleme. (Frankfurt, a. M.) 10 (no. 3): 192-198;
Mar. 1914.
Abr. trans.: Religion and sensualism as connected
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by clergymen. American Journal of Religious Psychol-
ogy, (Worcester, Mass.) 3 (no. 1): 16–28; May 1908.
A compilation from opinions of clergymen who
have observed a connection between sensualism and re-
ligious revival experience.
Der sexuelle Antheil an der Theologie der Mormonen.
Imago (Leipzig u. Wien) 3 (no. 2): 197-204; April
1914.
Trans.: Sexual determinant, 1908. See above.
Gekreuzigte Heilige von Wildisbuch. Zentralblatt
für Psychoanalyse und Psychotherapie. (Wies-
baden.) 4 (no. 6-7): 464–471; June–July, 1914.
Abridged trans: The wildisbuch crucified saint.
Psychoanalytic Review. (New York City.) I (no. 2):
I2O-I48; Feb. 1914.
Exhibits a case of sado-massochist conflict evolved
to religious frenzy and bloodshed. The psychic mechan-
isms are inadequately explained from the author's present
viewpoint.
Differential essence of religion. Truth Seeker.
(New York City.) 41 (no. 44): 689-691; (no. 45):
706-707; (no. 46): 726-727; Oct. 31, Nov. 7 & 14,
1914.
By means of many quotations and a progressive
elimination of other factors, the differential essence of
religion is reduced to a subjective ecstatic experience
certifying to the inerrancy of some creed, ceremonial, etc.,
and interpreted as of superhuman import.
1915
Heavenly bridegrooms. See: 1915-1918.
Psychogenetics of androcratic evolution. Psycho-
analytic Review. (New York City.) 2 (no. 3): 277-
285; July 1915.
Ascribes male dominance to a feeling of inferiority
on the part of women due to organic inferiority and to
sexual emotions of dependence. Incidentally gives an
account of the supposed erotic origin of religion in racial
adolescence somewhat revised from : Erotogenesis of re-
ligion: Alienist and Neurologist. Aug. 1907.
Incest in Mormonism. American Journal of Urology
and Sexology. (New York City.) 11 (no. 10): 409–
416; Oct. 1915.
Abstracted in: Psychoanalytic Review. 3 (no. 2):
223-230; Apr. 1916.
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Exhibits the sex-determinant behind one unusual
aspect of Mormon ethics.
1916
Heavenly bridegrooms. See: 1915-1918.
Erotogenesis of religion. A bibliography, Bruno Chap
Books. (New York City.) 3 (no. 2): 2-59; Feb.
1916.
List of books which discuss Phallic worship, and
the psychic aspects of religious erotogenetics, also anthro-
pological books from which may be gathered the raw
material for a psycho-analytic study of primitive religion.
Also pamphlets and magazine articles.
Proxies in Mormon polygamy. Forum. (New York
City.) 55 (no. 3): 341-351; Mch. 1916.
Republished as: Phases of Mormonism, vicarious
vice, vicarious atonement and especially proxy husbands
for certain wives. Truth Seeker. (New York City.) 43
(no. I4): 215-216; Apr. I, Igló.
Republished in : The Crucible (Seattle, Wash.) 5
(no. 4, whole no. 187) : 4; April 24, 1921. (No. 188) :
I; May 1, 1921.
Abstracted in: Psychoanalytic Review. (New York
City.) 3 (no. 2): 223-230; Apr. 1916.
Exhibits the sex-determinant in the Mormon theory
of celestial marriage.
Phases of Mormonism, vicarious vice, vicarious atone-
ment, and especially proxy husbands for certain
wives. Truth Seeker. (New York City.) 43 (no.
14): 215–216; Apr. 1, 1916.
This is a part of “Proxies in Mormon polygamy"
1916. Portrait of author, and brief biographical note.
Miscellaneous abstracts. Psychoanalytic Review.
(New York City.) 3 (no. 2):223–230; Apr. 1916.
Abstracts the following articles: The sexual de-
terminant in Mormon theology. Alienist and Neurologist.
(St. Louis.) 29 (no. 2): 208-222; May 1908.
Incest in Mormonism. American Journal of Urol-
ogy and Sexology. (New York City.) II (no. Io): 409-
416; Oct. 1915
Proxies in Mormon polygamy. Forum. (New York
City.) 55 (no. 3): 341-351; Mch. 1916.
er sexuelle Anteil an der Theologie der Mor-
monen. Imago. (Leipzig u. Wien.) 3 (no. 2) : 197-204;
Apr. 1914.
Mormon's heaven. Absurdities dreamed of in its
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theology. Truth Seeker. (New York City.) 43 (no.
29): 449–450; July 15, 1916.
Part of: Sexual determinant in Mormon theology,
1908. See that item.
1917
Heavenly bridegrooms. See: 1915-1918.
Hours with a revivalist. A report from the psycho-
logic viewpoint. With bibliography of author's
essays on the erotogenesis of religion. The Truth
Seeker Co., 62 Vesey St., (New York City) 1917.
19p.
“This essay, somewhat abridged, first appeared in
The Seven Arts, (New York City) Sept. 1917, pp. 646–
658. In its present and more complete form it was pub-
lished in the Truth Seeker, Sept. 15, 1917. 44 (no. 37):
577–579 under the title of “Religion wearing away.” The
erosive effect of the secular science illustrated.”
Describes a revivalist at work and concludes that he
was void of the religion of experience.
Religion wearing away. See last item.
1915-1918
Heavenly bridegrooms; an unintentional contribution
to the erotogenetic interpretation of religion by Ida
C. Bibliography. With an introduction by * *
New York. 1918. 121 p.
Reprint from : Alienist and Neurologist. (St. Louis.)
36 (no. 4): 434-448; Nov. 1915; 37 (no. I-2-3): 52-69,
211-222, 259-267; Feb. May, Aug. 1916; 38 (no. 2-3): 12 I-
146, 288-310. May, Aug. 1917.
here was a break in the publication of this serial
owing to the death of the former editor.
Reviewed by: Tullson, H. Sex in religious origins.
The doctrine of heavenly bridegrooms and allied abstrac-
tions disclosed by research. Truth Seeker (New York
City) 45 (no. 47): 740; Nov. 23, 1918.
Reviewed by: Crowley, Aliester. The Equinox
(Detroit, Mich.) 3 (no. 1): 280–281; 1919.
Reviewed by: Whitty, Michaels. Azoth 3 (no. 5):
300-301; Nov. 1918.
Ida C. justifies the objective verity of her erotic
hallucinations on the authority of a very great number of
mystics, Christian and others. The bibliography is that of
part of the religious material listed herein.
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1918
Spiritual joys. An attempted description by Cadi, In-
troduction by * * Azoth. (New York City.) 2 (no.
3): 140–142; Mch. 1918.
This is a superb description of , an orgasmic
ecstacy “when God is taken into partnership in marital
#. gii, item will be the subject of further discussion
y le S.
This author is the same as of: Heavenly bride-
grooms. See: 1915-18.
Living Gods. Azoth, (New York City) 3 (no. 4) : 202-
205; Oct. 1918.
Republished in: Truth Seeker, 45 (no. 43) : 682;
Oct. 26, 1918. Gives an account of the crude pantheistic
mysticism of a group of negroes who believe themselves
to have attained godhood. The erotogenetics will be ex-
hibited in a later essay.
1919
Matricide and maryolatry. Medico-Legal Journal.
(New York City.) 36 (no. 1):4-10; Jan.-Feb. 1919.
Discredits the popular theory of the psychology of
suggesting crime, exhibits mechanism of emotional con-
flict, the subjective unity of love and hate, and of exces-
sive lasciviousness and purism.
Revivals, sex, and holy ghost. Journal of Abnormal
Psychology. (Boston, Mass.) 14 (no. 1–2): 34–47;
Apr. July, 1919.
Abstracted in: Journal of Nervous and Mental
Disease (New York City) 52 (no. 6): 545-546; Dec. 1920.
Misquoted in : Psychological Bulletin 17 (no. 3) :96;
March 1920.
A careful and detailed description of the behaviour
of converts at a negro revival, interpreted as due to the
compulsion of psychic erotism.
Book review. Religion and sex. Studies in the pa-
thology of religion. Chapman Cohen. (London.
Eng.) T. N. Foulis, 1919, 287p. Journal of Abnormal
Psychology. (Boston, Mass.) 14 (no. 5): 366-367;
Dec. 1919.
. . Book gives historical account not, psychologic. Is
criticised for being moralistic and not deterministic, nor
psychogenetic.
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1920
“Divinity” in semen. Alienist and Neurologist, (St.
Louis, Mo.) 41 (no. 2): 93-101; April 1920.
Gives an account of a living man's, and of ancient
historic, belief in such a doctrine, and suggests a tendency
to felatio as psychogenetic interpretation of the facts.
Why priests don't marry. The spirituality of Mon-
tanists responsible for the unnatural institution of
celibacy. Truth Seeker (New York City.) 47 (no.
32): 509; Aug. 7, 1920.
Suggests a physical necessity as basis for glorifying
psychic erotism by this heretical sect. Title supplied by
editor not author.
Bundling and spirituality. Freethinker (London,
Eng.) 40 (no. 36); 566–567; Sept. 5, 1920.
Republished as: Strange “spiritual” experience,
Truth Seeker (New York City) 47 (no. 40): 635; Oct. 2,
I920.
Historical account of bundling, tending to show
that essence of “spirituality” is sex ecstacy.
Strange “spiritual” experience. See last title.
Swisher, Walter Samuel. Religion and the new psy-
chology. Marshal Jones & Co. Boston XV 261.
Psyche & Eros (New York City) 1 (no. 3): 188–189;
Nov.-Dec. 1920.
“One gets the impression that this book was per-
haps produced by some young liberal-minded theologian,
in an attempt to reconcile religion with psychoanalytic
theory, and without possessing an adequate understanding
of either.”
1920-1921
Christian Science and sex. New York Medical Jour-
nal (New York City). 112 (no. 22, whole no 2191):
851-852; Nov. 27, 1920.
Republished in: Truthseeker (New York City) 48
(no. I) : Io; Jan. 1, 1921.
Also in: The Crucible (Seattle, Wash.) 5 (no. 181):
[3] March 13, 1921.
Also in: Freethinker (London) 41 (no. 9): 139-140;
Feb. 27, 1921.
By the use of psychoanalytic theory an attempt is
made to explain the predisposition of Mrs. Eddy for cer-
tain, cardinal doctrines of her faith. The explanation is
morbid eroticism.
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1921
Secularized mystics. Open Court (Chicago, Ill.) 35
(no. 3, whole no. 778): 163–171; March, 1921.
Mysticism is a symptom of immature desires and
mental processes. The mechanism is the same even when
accompanied by anti-religious professions, and ex-
pressed in secular activities. Such activities are de-
scribed.
Shaker Celibacy and salacity—psychologically inter-
preted. New York Medical Journal. (New York
City). 113:800–5; June 1, 1921.
Republished under title of: Shaker celibacy and re-
ligion. Freethinker (London, Eng.) 41 (no. 37):582-583;
Sept. II; (no 38):597-598; Sept. 18; (no. 39):619–620;
Sept. 25; (no. 40): 634–635. Oct. 2, 1921.
Reviewed in : Truthseeker, Aug. 6, 1921.
Explanation is by use of psychoanalytic theory of
mental mechanisms.
Psychology of one pantheist. Psychoanalytic Review.
(Lancaster, Pa.) 8 (no. 3): 314–328; July 1921.
Describes mystical experiences, theories of divine
love, and social behavior of this mystic: See also: Anar-
chism and lord's farm : Open Court, Oct. 1919; Unique
blasphemy case Truth Seeker, Mch. 13, 1920; Psycho-
genetics of one criminal: Psycho-analytic Review --
(no. 3) : 277–291, July, 1924.
Religion not a true sublimation. Open Court (Chi-
cago, Ill.) 36 (no. 8): 495-506; August 1921.
Briefly reviewed in : Truthseeker, Sept. 24, 1921.
Criticizes an article by Prof. Wesley Raymond Wells
on : The theory of recapitulation and religious and moral
discipline of children; American Journal of Psychology.
(Worcester, Mass.) 29: 371-382; Oct. 1918. T. S.' article
closes with a statement of the psychologic essentials of
true sublimation. See also: Biological foundations of be-
lief, by Wesley Raymond Wells.
Wells' adolescent conflict precluded him from cor-
rect application of the theory of recapitulation, and from
seeing “sublimation” as a problem of psychic evolution.
This latter is briefly and dogmatically outlined.
Proxies in Morman polygamy. See same title, 1916.
1922
Some difficulties and problems of the psychologists of
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religion. Psyche and Eros (New York City) 3
(no. 3) : 159-168 : May-June, 1922.
The chief difficulty is the psychologic imperative of
religious psychologists. That and the mystic's self-inter-
pretation, both need to be judged by an evolutionary stand-
ard of desires and of mental processes. Psychologists
with even a mild erotophobia are incompetent for the
psychogenetic study of religious experiences.
Republished as: Religious Psychologist; below.
Will the mind of man outgrow religion? National
Pictorial Magazine. (New York City) 2 (no. 4) ; 23-
24; June 1922.
Only healthy minded persons can outgrow the need
for religion. Short contribution to symposium. Will be
republished with review of the other, contributions.
Religious Psychologists. Truth Seeker (New York
City) 49 (no. 31) : 490–491; (no. 32) : 506-507; Aug. 5
and 12, 1922. Reprint 20p., under fuller title above.
Also in : Freethinker (London) 42 (nos. 36-38) : 570
572; 581-582; 596-597; Sept. 3, 10, 17, 1922.
Same as: Some difficulties and problems; above.
Institute of religious psychology proposed. Truth
Seeker (New York City) 49 (no. 38) : 603; Sept. 23,
1922.
Briefly suggests the needs and the tasks of such
an organization, working with complete detachment from
interest in religion's welfare. Reprint enlarged to six
pages.
Scientific approach to religious psychology. ... Truth
Seeker (New York City) 49 (nos. 44-45) : 682-683;
698-699; Oct. 28–Nov. 4, 1922.
From the psycho-genetic viewpoint the truth of re-
ligious dogmas are unimportant. We need to study the
religious temperament, even though exhibited by devout
atheists. The , mystic's mental mechanisms must be
studied as to the nature, origin, development, and inter-
pretation of the mystic, experience and of the conditions
for outgrowing it; and all classified according to their
maturity in an evolutionary scale of intellectual methods.
Reprints, 20 pages.
Prenatal psychisms and mystical pantheism. Interna-
tional Journal of Psycho-analysis (London) 3 (part
%) : 445-466; 1922. se
Lengthy abstract in: Psycho-analytic Review,
(Washington, D.C.) Io (no. 3) : 337-346 July 1923.
Reviewed in: Truth Seeker, June 2, 1923. py”
The mystic's experience of “cosmic consciousness
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of “universal love” or of “God”, is an erotic ecstacy,
which for the moment precludes all consciousness of ob-
jectives, or of personal limitation. This psychologic in-
hibition imposes the same unawareness of relations to
objectives as that which is, by the physical conditions,
imposed upon the prenatal psyche. Describes the mental
mechanism by which such inhibitions produce the illusion
of experiencing God.
Commended in: Rank, Otto; Trauma der Geburt, 50.
1923
Phallic worship to a secularized sex. Journal of Sex-
ology and Psychanalysis (New York City) 1 (no
1) : 73–87; Jan. 1923.
The primitive man, by projecting his phallic wor-
shipping propensity, sexualized much of the universe. Hu-
man progress has been a process of de-sexualizing, de-
sentimentalizing, and secularizing our attitude toward
nature and its ways.
Included in: Stone (Lee Alexander), Story of
phallic worship, Covici, Chicago. I927; vol. 2:631-52.
Slightly revised in next item.
Secularizing of sex. Truth Seeker (New York City)
50 (nos. 6-7-8) :90, 106, 122-123; Feb. 10, 17, 24,
1923.
See description under last item.
Sermon on “love to God”, showing when psycho-
analyzed that the love is genuine but its object
phantasmal. Truth Seeker (New York City) 50
(no. 16) : 250–1; April 21, 1923.
A sermon of Dr. John Kelman, of Fifth Avenue
(N.Y.) Presbyterian Church, is edited by interpolating its
probable psychologic implications of sexual sources.
1924
Bishop Brown's sanity. Truth Seeker (New York
City) 51 (no. 20) : 308-9; May 17, 1924.
Gives some psychologic explanation of B'p. Brown's
inner conflict, and its improvement by his “heresy.”
Bishop Brown found guilty of teaching heresy. The
Churchman (New York City.) 129 (no. 24) :22-3;
June 14, 1924.
Includes brief statement by T.S. of the psychologic .
issues in the trial. Also Bishop Brown's statement to the
newspapers after the verdict. Former statement included
in: Psychologic aspect of Bishop Brown's defense.
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Psychologic aspects of Bishop Brown's defense. Truth
Seeker. (New York City.) 51 (no. 27) : 426; July 5,
1924.
Republished in: Concerning the heresy trial (a
pamphlet). Same thoughts in: Religious history in the
making, 1925.
1925
Contribution to the psychology of theism. The French
prophets and John Lacey. Psychoanalytic Review.
(Washington, D.C.) 12 (no. 1) : 16-29; Jan. 1925.
Quite complete erotic obsessions tend to be inter-
preted in terms of an impersonal pantheistic God. A
lesser erotic obsession must phantasy a personal love ob-
ject, and so a psychologic ecstacy is more often ra-
tionalized as theism.
Republished as: Mysticism and venery. Trans, as:
Die Französischen Propheten.
Heresy of Bishop Brown. His defense and his own
views of the issues involved in his trial. Truth
Seeker (New York City) 52 (no. 5): 74; Jan. 31,
1925.
Same as next item.
Contains brief suggestions of psychologic issues in
the case.
Bishop Brown's position. Churchman (New York
City) 131 (no. 6) : 24; Jan. 31, 1925.
Same as last item.
Bishop Brown; his trial. . Prosecution and defense ac-
counted for in terms of psychoanalysis [?] and ero-
togenesis. Truth Seeker. (New York City.) 52 (no.
7) : 106; Feb. 14, 1925.
... Heresy, trials are a conflict of temperament, and
split personalities, with a sexual background.
Mysticism and venery. Truth. Seeker. (New York
º 52 (no. 16-17) :249-50; 266-7; Apr. 18, 25,
25.
Slightly abridged from: Contribution to the
psychology of theism. See above.
Religious history in the making. Aspects of Bishop
Brown's heresy case, as recently presented to New
York observers. Truth Seeker (New York City)
52 (no. 19), :294-5, May 9, 1925.
This account includes address of Theo. Schroeder
on some of the psychologic aspects of Bishop Brown's
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defense, which address was made at St. Mark's Church-
in-the-Bouwerie, Sunday, April 19, 1925. The varieties
: ºal content symbolized by creeds, makes heresy trials
2.0S111.
A bishop spills the beans. Unity. (Chicago, Ill.) 95
(no. 18) : 291–3; June 29, 1925.
Gives surface explanation of the psychologic dif-
#: of the liberal P.E. clergy over Bishop Brown's
“heresies.”
Riddles in Bishop Brown's heresy case. Open Court.
(Chicago, Ill.) 39 (no. 832) : 526-38; Sept. 1925.
Answers the question: Why does not Bishop Brown
resign from the House of Bishops? Includes some por-
trayal of Bishop Brown's subjective conflict.
Must all churches become creedless? Unity. (Chicago,
Ill.) 96 (no. 1) :7-9; Sept. 7, 1925.
Probably, because of the impossibility of making
orthodoxy depend upon a uniform mental content for
the creedal statements.
Secularism of a psychologist. A modernized, and mor-
ally startling statement of rationalists’ aims and de-
mands. Truth Seeker. (New York City.) 52 (no.
37) : 583; Sept. 12, 1925.
Secular aims of a psychologic determinist, includ-
ing the hope that humanity will outgrow all moral values,
as distinguished from the mere exchange of new moral
dogmas for old ones.
Is Bishop Brown religious? Truth Seeker. (New
York City.) 52 (no. 39) : 613-4; Sept. 26, 1925.
Bishop Brown among conflicting impulses has one
which places him in the borderland of religiosity, but
falls short of mysticism, which is the only thorough re-
ligiosity. Perhaps he should be called a “Humanist.”
Religious “love in action”. By the Rev. S.C.H. . . ,
Order of the Holy Cross. Introduction and inter-
polations by Theodore Schroeder. Psychoanalytic
Review. (Washington, D.C.) 12 (no. 4) : 414-9; Oct.
1925.
From the introduction: “In the following pages
I have taken a Christian mystic's description of religious
love, and have interpolated descriptive words from the
theory of sexual psychology” to explain religious love.
The essay thus explained is republished from the Holy
Cross Magazine.
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Die französischen “propheten“ und John Lacey. Ein
beittrag zur psychologie des theismus. Sonntags-
blatt der New Yorker Volkszeitung. (New York
City) 48 (Section 2): 14–15; Dec. 13, 1925.
Translation of : Contribution to the psychology of
theism. See Jan. 1925.
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“Christliche wissenschaft" und sexualität. Sonntags-
blatt der New Yorker Volkszeitung. (New York
City.) 49 (Section 2): 3; Jan. 3, 1926.
Translation of: Christian Science and Sex. 1920-1.
Gespräch mit einem “revival” prediger. Sonntagsblatt
der New Yorker Volkszeitung. 49 (no. 15): 5; Apr.
11, 1926.
Trans. of: Hours with a revivalist, I917.
Abolish the “golden rule". Unity. (Chicago, Ill.) 99
(no. 26): 411-2, Aug. 23, 1926.
Enlarged revision from essay of same title in:
Truth Seeker. (New York City.) 39: 679; Oct. 26, 1912.
Objection is based partly on its use in justifying
Mormon blood-atonement, and similar doctrines in other
religions. Also on ground of mental hygiene. Sadism
is its explanation.
“Truth“, religion and science. Truth Seeker. (New
York City.) 53 (no. 47): 747; Nov. 20, 1926.
Shows, when viewed psychologically, the absurdity
of an effort to harmonize religion and science, made by:
Religio-Scientific Institute.
Zur kritik der “golden rule“. Eine blütenlese aus
anglo-amerikanischen zeitschriften. Sonntagsblatt
der New Yorker Volkszeitung. (New York City.)
49 (no. 47). Sec. 1:7; Nov. 21, 1926.


Translation: Abolish the golden rule. See above.
1927
Die gekreuzigte heilige von Wildisbuch. Pioneer il-
lustrierter Volkskalender. (New York City.) 46
Jahrgang :82-4; 1927.
Trans. Wildisbuch crucified saint, 1914.
Manufacturing “the experience of God". Psycho-
analytic Review. (Washington, D.C. and Albany,
N.Y.) 14 (no. 1): 71-84; Jan. 1927.
E s S Exhibits the intellectual processes of translating sub-
jective experiences into supernatural manifestations and
theologic formulation.
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T H E P S Y C H O L O G Y O F R E L J G I O N
The religion of humanism. Truth Seeker. (New York
City.) 54 (no. 10) : 149-150; Mch. 6, 1927.
The “humanism” of Rev. L. M. Birkhead is criti-
cized for its subjectivism, as presenting the same prob-
lem of mental hygiene as does all other religiosity. This
i. contrasted with a scientific attitude toward social prob-
eIIlS. es
Maturing of intellectual methods. Truth Seeker. (New
York City.) 54 (no. 13) : 197-8; Mch. 26, 1927: II.
(no. 14) : 218; Apr. 2, 1927. III. (no. 15) :234; Apr.
9, 1927.
ligion.
Abridged to half length in translation under title:
Meine erziehung zum agnostiker. New Yorker Volks-
- zeitung. 56 (no. 75) : 3; Mch. 29, 1927.
“Religious humanism.” Temperature of Dr. Reese's
fiery alter reduced by bath of evolutionary psychol-
ogy. Truth Seeker (New York City) 54 (no. 32):
502-3; Aug. 6 1927.
A criticism of: Humanism, by Curtis W. Reese,
Open Court Pub. Co. Inferiority feeling as creator of
religious experiences, is claimed as explanation.
1928
Al. Smith, the Pope and the Presidency, a sober dis-
cussion of the church-state issue. * * * Published by
the author (New York City, N. Y.), 1928; 212p.
“Not the least diverting element in it is the solemn
bunk which the author calls psychology. * * * Again
and again he applied this so-called psychologic test to
Governor. Smith's letter,”, etc., etc. Rev. John A. Ryan.
This book deals more with the psychology of religious
methods of controversy, rather than with the psychology
of religion. * >
1929
Guilt and inferiority feeling as creator of religious
experience. Psycho-analytic Review (Albany, N. Y.,
and Washington, D. C.) XVI (no. 1) :46-54; Jan.,
1929.
Fragment of psychologic autobiography as to re-
A contribution to psychology. of theism and the
subjective conflict in religion.
Religion, supernatural fear and sex. Freethinker
(London, Eng.) 49 (no. 30) : 469-470; July 28, 1929.
A critical. reyiew , of the position taken by Mr.
Hugh E. M. Stutfield in: Mysticism and Catholicism,
London, 1925. He argues that fear (presumably non-
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sexual) is the basis of religion, rather than the fear of
“unconscious" and conscious sexual guilt.
Psycho-analytic approach to religious experience.
Psycho-analytic Review (Albany, N. Y. and Wash-
ington, D. C.) XVI (no. 4) : 361-376; Oct., 1929.
. An address delivered before 200 clergymen. Sum-
marizes previous essays, and outlines a concept of the sub-
jective aspect of maturing intellectual methods.
1929-1930
Religion not theology is the enemy. Freethinker
(London, Eng.) v. 50 (nos. 1, 2, 3) : 5-6; 26-7; 42-3;
Jan. 5, 12, 19, 1930.
Rewrittcn from essay of same title in : Unity
(Chicago, Ill.) v. 103 (no. 6) : oi-95; Apr. 8, 1929.
1930
Evolution of a psychologist of religion. Freethinker
(London, Eng.) 50 (no. 16, 17) : 250-1; 262-3; Apr.
20, 27, 1930.
Autobiographical. See also: Maturing intellectual
methods, 1927.
Supreme problem of religion, Freethinker (London,
Eng.) v. 50 (nos. 21, 22) : 325, 346; May 25, June 1,
1930.
This supreme problem is the possible erotogenetic
interpretation of religious or mystical experience.
“Monistic Religion” and hocus-pocus. Freethinker
(London, Eng.) 50 (no. 24) : 379–80; (no. 25);
394; June 15, 22, 1930. -
A criticism of misleading religious dialectics, by
such scientists as Ernest Haeckek without their havin
a religious mental content or using religious intellectua
methods.
1930-1931
Witchcraft and the erotic life. Journal of Nervous
and Mental Disease (New York City, N. Y.) 72:
640-51, Dec., 1930.
Reprinted in : Freethinker (London, Eng.) 51,
90-1; 106-7; 122-3; Feb. 8, 15, 22, 1931.
Witchcraft is based upon ordinary sexual hallucina-
tion, as shown by the evidence in the trial of Rev. Fr;
Urbain Grandier, burnt to death. in 1634. Nuns had
erotic dreams concerning him, therefore he had be-
witched them.
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1932
“Living God” incarnate. Psycho-analytic Review (Al-
bany, N. Y., and Washington, D. C.) 19 (no. 1):
36-45; Jan., 1932.
The subject of this study is a pantheistic negress,
and the sexual basis of her pantheism is indicated.
“Divinity” in the semen. Journal of Nervous and
Mental Disease (New York City, N.Y.) 76:110-127;
Aug., 1932.
This is an elaboration of an essay of 1920 having
the same title.
Book Review. Bibliography of sex-rites and customs.
An annotated record of books, articles, and illustrations
in all languages. By Roger Goodland. London, Eng-
land, George Routledge and Sons, L’m'td., 1931.
Psycho-analytic Review (Albany, N. Y., and Wash-
ington, D. C.) 19 (no. 4) : 480; Oct., 1932.
Revivals, sex and Holy Ghost. Modern Psychologist
(New York City) 1 (no. 2) : 73–80; Dec., 1932.
Slightly revised from same title, 1919. Describes
a religious revival among negroes.
1933
Converting sex into religiosity. Medical Review of
Reviews (New York City) 39 (no. 454): 407-415;
Sept., 1933. -
A study in Roman Catholic Mysticism, which is
made around The Spiritual Combat, by Rev. Fr. Juan de
Castaniza (d. 1598), or by Rev. Fr. D. Laurence Scupoli
(also spelled Scopuli).
1934
Phallic worship to a secularized sex. Medical Re-
view of Reviews (New York City) 40 (no. 458);
also: Anthropus (New York City) 1:19-35; Jan.,
1934.
This is complete rewriting of an essay of same
title, 1923, which was reviewed Psycho-analytic Review,
v. 15:366-7.
Sexual theology of Mormonism. Debate (New York
City) 1 (no. 3) : 41-3, Apr., 1934.
Abridged and references omitted, from three essays
herein above listed under 1908, 1915, 1916; and abstracted
in: Psychoanalytic Review, 3:223-230, April 1916.
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Agnostic psychologists’ position. Freethinker (Lon–
don, Eng.) 54 (no. 19) : 299-300; also (no. 20) :
v. I5:366-7.
Attitude and object stated and contrasted with con-
trary ones.
1935
One religio-sexual maniac. Psychoanalytic Review
(Albany, N. Y. and Washington, D. C.)
Some metaphysics of sex. Medical Review of Re-
views (New York City).
Modern issues between theologians and scientists.

BIBLIOGRAPHIES OF SCHROEDERIANA
1913
Partial bibliography of the writings of Theodore
Schroeder dealing largely with problems of religion,
of sex, and of freedom of speech. Free speech
league. (New York) April 1913, 8p., 84 titles.
1919
Authorship of the book of Mormon. Psychologic tests
of W. F. Prince, critically reviewed by Theodore
Schroeder * * * to which is now added a bibli-
ography of Schroeder on Mormonism. Reprint [ex-
cept bibliography]. American Journal of Psychol-
ogy. (Worcester, Mass.) XXX pp. 66-72. January,
1919. 18p., 65 titles.
Bibliography pp. Io-18. There is some duplication by
revision, republication or translation.
Sankey-Jones, Nancy Eleanor, 1862–
Theodore Schroeder on free speech, a bibliography
by Nancy E. Sankey-Jones. (New York.) Free
speech league. 1919. 24p., 149 titles.
Duplication by revision, republication or translation.
1920–2
Sankey-Jones, Nancy Eleanor, 1862–
Theodore Schroeder's use of the psychologic ap-
proach to problems of religion, law, criminology and
philosophy. A bibliography by Nancy E. Sankey-
Jones. (Cos Cob, Conn.) 1920. 16p.
Revised ed., Jan. 1922. I8p., 92 titles.—Some duplication
by revision, republication or translation.
1922
Sankey-Jones, Nancy Eleanor, 1862–
A unique heathen, to which is now added: Theo-
dore Schroeder on the erotogenesis of religion, a bib-
liography “* * republishing in combination two es-
says from : The Freethinker, London, Eng. Apr. 17,
1921; The Truth-seeker, New York, N. Y. Jan. 7,
1922. Cos Cob, Conn. January 1922. 13+14pp.
Lists 50 titles, mostly selected from the last list.
1927
Sankey-Jones, Nancy Eleanor, 1862–
One who is different, to which is now added a bib-
liography of Theodore Schroeder on the psychology
of religion ***. Published by the author, Cos Cob,
Conn., Dec. 1927. 4+ 17pp.
Lists 78 items, including translations and republications.
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BOOKS BY THEODORE SCHROEDER
1909
Free press anthology, compiled by Theodore Schroeder.
Free Speech League and Truth Seeker Publishing
Co., New York City. 1909. 267p. $2.00.
1911
“Obscene” literature and constitutional law, a forensic
defense of freedom of the press. Theodore Schroeder.
Privately printed for forensic uses. New York City,
1911. 439p. $6.00.
Sold only to libraries and persons known to belong to
one of the learned professions.
1916
Free speech for radicals. Enlarged edition by Theo-
dore Schroeder. Published for the Free Speech
League, N. Y. Hillacre Bookhouse, Riverside, Conn.,
1916. 206p. $2.00.
&
1919
Constitutional free speech defined and defended in an
unfinished argument in a case of blasphemy. Theo-
dore Schroeder. Free Speech League, New York City,
1919, pp. 9 to 456. $2.00 and $8.00.
1922
Free speech bibliography, including every discovered
attitude toward the problem, covering every method
of transmitting ideas and of abridging their pro-
mulgation upon every subject-matter [by] Theo-
dore Schroeder . . . . New York City, The H. W.
Wilson Company; London, Grafton & Co., 1922.
247p. $4.00.
Contents.-I. Before 1800.-II. General discussions.—
III. Alien and sedition laws of 1798–IV. Economic mo-
tive.—V. Personal motive.—VI. Religious motive.—VII.
Sedition.—VIII. Sex motive.—IX. War motive.—X. Sup-
pressed publications.—Index. This volume lists about
4,000 items.
1928
Al... Smith, the pope and the presidency. A sober
discussion of the church-state issue. Theodore
Schroeder. Published by the author, New York
City, 1928. 212p. $1.00 and $2.00.
THEO. SCHROEDER, Coscob, Conn., U. S. A.
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{NTELLECTUAL SLAVERY
BY THEODORE SCHROEDER
"ſo permit the limitation of mental freedoro
coricedes power to create every other slavery
since only those of high intelligence as to free-
men's rights can know and so love liberty as to
make possible the overthrow of any tyranny.
Censorship fosters all the horrors of every serf-
dom. It precludes the intelligence necessary to
peaceful revolutions and by the same ignorance
makes revolutions by violence more bloody in
method and less useful in consequences. It is the
surest method of prolonging legalized injustice,
the strongest chain for slaves, the chief support
of a “bloody Tzar” and of the more subtle, in-
direct and therefore more dangerous tyranny of
majorities. It is the slimy ooze in which germi-
nates the prudish purulence of our puritan
‘morals” and is the creator of “moralists” for
revenue who easily develop into professional per-
jurers and spy-provocateurs. Tyrant-wrongs and
rebel-vengence will continue their vicious round
until our minds are freed from conventions, tra-
ditions, superstitions and statutes, until we are
permitted to hear all and read all that unrestrain-
ed minds are willing to offer and until we our-
selves are desirous to know all, free to believe all
and encouraged to express all that we believe or
feel. Liberty bypermission is slavery; only tyrants
and slaves live where any sane adult can be
precluded from receiving even the most odious
opinion—about the most obnoxious subject-
expressed in the most offensive manner-by the
*ºst despised person.
INTELLECTUAL HOSPITALITY
BY THEODORE SCHROEDER.
To have some intelligent appreciation of how
much of the knowable is yet unknown, conduces
to that humility which is the beginning of wis’
dom. To know something of the past struggles
for human progress conduces to an appreciation
of hovy little is probably true of what we think
we know. Thus to see our attainments in their
true relations to past beliefs and their probable
relation to future knowledge conduces to a true
uſeasure of our great ignorance. To have this
is to be without censure, because without a
stupid pride. To love truth more than our vain
predispositions; to love harmlessness of life more
than moral sentimentalism; to be free from
phariseeism, because knowing the diversity and
uncertainty of standards; to be unafraid of new
evidence, and unoppressive toward new allega-
tions of truth; to be controlled by a selfishness
of so high an order, that your greatest happiness
comes from studying all problems from the im-
personal viewpoint, and making all judgements by
impersonal standards; to have the desire to be
right always overpowering the desire that
others esteem us to be so; never to impose one's
opinion by invasive force; never to be impatient,
except, perhaps with dogmatism and intolerance
—this is the essence of intellectual hospitality.
In addition to this, if you show that rare disposi-
tion to make a substantial sacrifice for defending
the right to be heard, of those whose opinions
you disapprove, you would have a virtue so
rare as to be almost heroic.
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