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FREUD AND MAN'S SOUL. By Bruno Bettelheim. New York: Knopf, 1982. Vintage Books Ed., New York: Random House, 1984, xii + 112 pp., $3.95.
THE COMPLETE LETTERS OF SIGMUND FREUD TO WILHELM FLIESS, 1887-1904. Trans. & Ed. by Jeffrey M. Masson. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1985, xv + 505 pp., $25.00.
THE ASSAULT ON TRUTH: FREUD'S SUPPRESSION OF THE SEDUCTION THEORY. By Jeffrey M. Masson. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1984, xxii + 308 pp., $16.95.
FREUD AS A WRITER. By Patrick Mahony. Madison, Conn.: Int. Univ. Press, 1982, xv + 227 pp., $27.50.
CRIES OF THE WOLF MAN. By Patrick Mahony. Madison, Conn.: Int. Univ. Press, 1984, xii + 185 pp., $25.00.
JACQUES LACAN AND THE ADVENTURE OF INSIGHT: PSYCHOANALYSIS IN CONTEMPORARY CULTURE. By Shoshana Felman. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1987, 208 pp., $21.00.
THE LEGEND OF FREUD. By Samuel Weber. Minneapolis: Univ. Minnesota Press, 1982, xvii + 179 pp., $10.95. (Originally, FREUD LEGENDE: DREI STUDIEN ZUM PSYCHOANALYTISCHEN DENKEN. Olten, Switzerland: Walter Verlag AG. Rev. & trans. by the author.)
ALL THE BOOKS UNDER REVIEW BELOW emphasize new approaches to reading Freud's work, in which content is subordinated to process, style, and what transpires between author and reader. Our problems in reading Freud's texts now become the central focus. We move away from what Freud said and meant, to how Freud said what he did, and what we are to do