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This volume contains, in addition to the customary sections, a moving memorial to Anna Freud. Her death in 1982 created a serious hiatus in psychoanalysis as a theory and body of knowledge. Reading the articles in her memory by Joseph Goldstein, Peter B. Neubauer, Leo Rangel, Albert J. Solnit, Lottie M. Newman and Robert S. Wallerstein, one recalls with awe the wide range of her vast contributions as well as her personal influence in stimulating research and clarification and expansion of theory. Nobody has contributed so much to psychoanalytic conceptualization, research methodology and its implementation, child, adolescent, and adult psychoanalytic technique, and the application of psychoanalytic knowledge to law, education, child rearing, residential treatment, treatment and prevention of childhood disorders, to mention some of the outstanding areas.
The 26 articles in the "usual" sections (of which I will discuss only 11 because of space limitations) reflect the high standards we have come to expect of the Psychoanalytic Study of the Child.
A number of articles in the Theory and Development section emphasize instinctual aspects of the personality. T. Wayne Downey attempts to conceptualize aggression as a positive constructive force as well as a negative destructive one. Aggression, he says (p. 134), commences "with a state of primary omnipotent illusion fueled by aggression." It "functions to differentiate self from love objects." The transitional object "knits together aggressive and libidinal drive elements in a preliminary attempt to establish safe, enduring object relations" and leads to the achievement of object constancy. Eric A. Plaut, on the other hand, argues for the assumption of a third set of instincts, the ego instincts. The ego instincts, he asserts, have a source