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The fifty-ninth volume of The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child offers a rich collection of papers capturing many of the ideas and debates at the forefront of our professional dialogue. Reading these selections nearly sixty years after publication of the first volume brings into focus the evolution of thought that has occurred in the intervening years. The scope of this publication reaches far beyond the realm of those whose focus is children. Any reader with an interest in psychoanalytic theory and practice will find it a stimulating resource.
The volume opens with a symposium on hate, a powerful collection of writings wrestling with the phenomenon of hate and its relation to development, psychopathology, evil, and love. T. Wayne Downey's “Notes on Hate and Hating” is a thoughtful discussion of hate's role in development and adaptation. By relating his ideas to those of Klein (Klein and Riviere 1937), Fairbairn (1941), Shengold (1989), Kernberg (1991), Parens (1991), and others, he places his thoughts in historical context, enhancing the coherence of his ideas. Linda C. Mayes's discussion of Downey's paper elegantly draws the reader to the relevance