Book Notices

THE LIFE AND WORK OF SIGMUND FREUD. By Ernest Jones. Edited and Abridged in One Volume by Lionel Trilling and Steven Marcus. With an Introduction by Lionel Trilling. New York: Basic Books, 1961. xxvi + 541 pp., $7.50.

The elegance of Lionel Trilling's writing is contained in an introduction tender in its tribute to the subject of this biography, now reduced in size to one volume by the emendation of most of the technical discussions of Freud's work. As Trilling says, "The work is large, and ordered, and courageous, and magnanimous in intention; and of the life we can say nothing less."

MAN'S PICTURE OF HIS WORLD. A PSYCHO-ANALYTIC STUDY. By Roger E. Money-Kyrle. New York: International Universities Press, 1961, 190 pp., $4.50.

The author here attempts to systematize psychoanalytic theory according to Melanie Klein, whose "school" he considers to be the "most progressive" one. Says Money-Kyrle: "To know all about a person's world-model, and how it was constructed, is … to know all about this person."

In Part I, the author deals with the construction of "world-models" in the course of development, approaching the problem from the biological, psychological, and subjectivist philosophical points of view, employing the well-known Kleinian formulations. In Part II, he attempts to apply these to demonstrate "how some of our evaluations in aesthetics, ethics and politics are determined by our world-models, and how it may be possible to distinguish evaluations determined by false models from evaluations determined by true ones." Such distinctions, to give a specific example, might comprise an inquiry as to "whether a man's belief that he was a deprived child has determined his ethics, whether the belief is true, or a myth invented to hide an unconscious sense of having been greedy and ungrateful; and whether, should he discover his belief to be untrue, his ethics will change with it, and in what direction."

PERSONALITY STRUCTURE AND HUMAN INTERACTION. THE DEVELOPIN