Fürchte Deinen Nächsten Wie Dich Selbest: Psychoanalyse Und Gesellschaft Am Modell Der Agni in Westafrika [fear Your Neighbor as Yourself: Psychoanaiysis and Society as Exemplified by the Agni in West Africa]: By Paul Parin, Fritz Morgenthaler, Goldy Parin-Matthèy. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1971, 582 pp. DM20.

Psychoanalytic anthropology is coming of age. Its development could even be compared with human life stages. Freud conceived and nurtured it through its explosive infancy of discovery about a world alien to psychoanalysis, the world of culture and society. Róheim shepherded the discipline into its brilliant, still fantasy-ridden childhood. The culture-and-personality school socialized the unruly child; in the process of bringing it to heel and making it socially presentable, this group managed to break its bold, speculative spirit and its focus on the body. The latency age of the discipline was devoted to the development of direct investigative tools, skills, and techniques; under the aegis of Devereux and Muensterberger, modified versions of psychoanalytic technique were applied in the field. The work of these thinkers and of LaBarre inaugurated a renascence of grand philosophical speculation, characteristic of adolescence. The more recent upsurge of psychological, medical, and psychiatric anthropology has made possible scientific comparisons among cultures based on psychoanalytic ideas and has laid the foundation for a more mature scientific approach on the