I have reservations about this anthology on two accounts: its editorial commentary and some of the choices made for its 26 anthologized essays. Before elaborating my reservations, however, I should briefly describe the anthology, which is co-edited by Edith Kurzweil, a sociologist, and William Phillips, a literary critic and long-term editor of the Partisan Review. After collaborating on a short preface, the editors divided their tasks, Phillips writing the extended "General Introduction" and Kurzweil composing a preliminary commentary for each of the six comprehensive sections among which the essays are grouped: (1) Early Psychoanalytic Theory, (2) Literary Approaches and Theories, (3) Literary Applications, (4) Three Views of Kafka, (5) Two Views of Carroll, and (6) The French Connection.