Book Notices

PSYCHOANALYTIC CONCEPTS AND THE STRUCTURAL THEORY. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association Monograph Series No. 3. By Jacob A. Arlow and Charles Brenner. New York: International Universities Press, 1964, xii + 201 pp., $4.00.

The authors offer the view that, as a systematic schema of mental organization, the structural theory is of far greater clinical and theoretical value than is the topographic hypothesis and should replace it. Initially, they embark on a brief historical survey of psychoanalysis and demonstrate the development of the topographic and structural postulates. The earlier chapters evolve the diverse frameworks and then compare and contrast them. The bulk of the book reviews certain traditional concepts of psychoanalysis, such as repression, primary and secondary processes, and views of dreams and psychoses which historically emerged from the topographic point of view. To support their preference for the structural theory the authors attempt to place these concepts into a structural setting and demonstrate the resultant clinical and theoretical advantages.

THE FREUD JOURNAL OF LOU ANDREAS-SALOMÉ. Translated and with an introduction by Stanley A. Leavy. New York: Basic Books, 1964, 224 pp., $4.95.

At the age of fifty, Lou Andreas-Salomé, novelist, critic, author of articles on religion, drama, and female sexuality, came to Vienna at a time when psychoanalysis was in process of undergoing numerous schisms. In this journal, this extraordinary woman, possessed of great intuitive, poetic, and philosophic gifts, describes her contacts with the various members of the group around Freud and with Freud's dissenters. She apparently had an enormously stimulating effect on men of great creative stature—Nietzsche, Rilke, Freud foremost among them—and always retained her own individuality among them with respect to her opinions and her own responses to their views. She practiced psychoanalysis with Freud's encouragement, although she was never