From the Editors

If you have been reading our series on The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott, you may notice that in this issue of JAPA Review of Books we pause before publishing the tenth of those reviews. We'll return to Winnicott in issue 70/4, with an excellent review of Volume 10 by John Foehl and Christopher Bonovitz. Here we open with three pieces—a book essay and two reviews—on other significant voices from the past.

Rita Teusch's essay introduces the fourth in a planned five-volume collection of letters between Freud and his soon-to-be wife Martha Bernays, exchanged during the four years of their courtship. The entire collection—thus far available only in German—is edited by Gerhard Fichtner, Ilse Grubrich-Simitis, Albrecht Hirschmüller, and Wolfgang Kloft. Readers may also wish to see Teusch's reviews of two earlier volumes in the collection (volume 2, in JAPA 62/2; volume 3, in JAPA 65/1) and Christian Maetzener's review of volume 1 (JAPA 60/5). The correspondence in volume 4 is both passionate and historically complex. Through Freud's exchange with Bernays, we glimpse the rising social and political tides of approaching war—“Traces of our complicated existence,” in Freud's words. We also see a human, loving, and at times anxious young Freud, through the early development of his eminent career, and a strong, brilliant, empathic, and patient Bernays. We echo Teusch's hope that these letters will soon be translated into English and made more widely available.

Revisiting Early Psychoanalysts

Elizabeth Fritsch offers a deep reading of The Klein Tradition: Lines of Development—Evolution of Theory and Practice over the Decades, a volume edited by Penelope Garvey and Kay Long, with a globe-spanning roster of contributors. Fritsch writes that Garvey and Long identify

Klein's conceptual outlining of the paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions as “perhaps the most outstanding of her achievements” (p. 15). Among Klein's most valua