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Like the course of true love, psychoanalytic historiography never has run smooth. From the beginning, with Freud's seminal discoveries, conceptualizations of psychic life and its unconscious dimensions have been subjected to, and have informed, changing understandings of relations between selves and the social and cultural dimensions of the Western world and beyond. In both enormously generative and narrowly defensive ways, the use of psychoanalytic concepts has played consequential roles, from conservative to revolutionary, in a wide range of politically charged controversies. When in 2009 Elisabeth Young-Bruehl and Christine Dunbar constructed a timeline of psychoanalysis from 1900 to 2000, their challenge was to encompass the interplay of shifting generational, national, theoretical, institutional, social, and cultural differences and conflicts within an historiographic design that could also acknowledge major individuals and scores of important texts. The result was a foldout book replete with color-coded information on both sides, some nine feet long when the book is fully extended. The complexity and overdetermination of the subject demands extensive learning, imaginative