This is the age of “new appraisals” of Freud. Often one feels tempted to offer such authors a rephrasing of lines from Goethe's Faust: “What you call the spirit of Freud, really is the spirit of yourself in which you see Freud reflected.”

Maryse Choisy, president of the Association for Applied Psychoanalysis, editor of the French psychoanalytic journal Psyché, author of The Ring of Polycrates, Psychoanalysis and Catholicism, yoga and Psychoanalysis and translator of Horney's first books, is a highly creative individual. Having been a close friend of the late Teillard de Chardin, she states in his spirit: “Nothing is mere biological, nothing is mere spiritual. It is a whole.” On the basis of some personal meetings with Freud and of statements Freud made in his work and letters, she attempts