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We are pleased to open this issue with the second installment in a series of reviews of The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott, commissioned by guest editors Philip Blumberg and Adrienne Harris. Here Giuseppe Civitarese treats us to a marvelously engaging review of Volume 3 .
Readers of the Review of Books may recall that JAPA 68/5 featured Part 1 of Martina Kolb's essay on Edith Jacobson's Black Prison Notebook, titled “Poetic Agency: Edith Jacobson's Captivity.” There Kolb explained how Jacobson's prison notebook was discovered in a shoebox of papers inherited by Judith Kessler and was then published in a volume she edited with Ronald Kaufhold. Kolb explores in that essay how the act of personal writing, both in prose and especially in verse, helped Jacobson tolerate her experience as a political prisoner in Nazi Germany. Here, in Part 2 of her essay—“Well-Versed: Edith Jacobson's Expressionism”—Kolb focuses on the literary quality of Jacobson's “intriguing verse,” which “deserves close reading … since it shares clear affinities with her germanophone poetic heritage and with contemporary expressionist poetics.” In Kolb's view, Jacobson was “a noteworthy prison-poet whose work merits wider international circulation”; and though Kessler and Kaufhold's volume takes a small step in this direction, a definitive bilingual collection of Jacobson's poetry has yet to be published.
Nancy Chodorow's most recent book—The Psychoanalytic Ear and the Sociological Eye: Toward an American Independent Tradition —was the cornerstone of a recent review essay by anthropologist-psychoanalyst Robert Paul (JAPA 68/4). Embedded in the title of Paul's essay—“Personal