Quelle psychanalyse pour le XXIe siècle? Tome 1. Concepts psychanalytiques en mouvement (What Psychoanalysis for the Twenty-first Century? Vol. 1. Concepts of the Psychoanalytic Movement). By Florence Guignard. Montreuil sous Bois:  Éditions d'lthaque, 2015,  260 pp.

Florence Guignard is a child psychoanalyst and a scholar. The author of Au vif de l'infantile (1996) and Epître à l'objet (1997), she has published more than 250 articles. A member of the Paris Psychoanalytic Society and the IPA, she founded, together with Annie Anzieu, the Association for the Psychoanalysis of the Child (APE) in 1984. Ten years later, in 1994, she founded the European Society for the Psychoanalysis of the Child and the Adolescent (SEPEA).

Quelle psychanalyse pour le XXIe siècle? is the first of a two-volume project. In these 260 pages, Guignard conveys her passion for psychoanalysis and a deep commitment to developing psychoanalytic theory and clinical practice. She approaches theory and practice as together an enduring science of the mind and as a treatment. This is a dense and meticulous work. The author writes from the perspective of her rigorous grounding in classical Freudian theory, particularly as expressed in French psychoanalytic theory and its emphasis on the drives.

Throughout the book's diverse chapters a few basic themes knit together the many ideas presented. These themes include an emphasis on the drives, their evolution through psychic development, the influence of the current social and cultural environment, and the idea that the human