This fascinating collection of essays forms part of a series called Controversies in Psychoanalysis, which includes titles on subjects such as gender, time, sexuality and perversion. Anne Hayman's ideas, as presented in this volume, are indeed controversial, challenging as they do some of the dominant theories of Freud, Klein and Bion, theories we have perhaps accepted through our trainings by virtue of the very eminence of their originators. But the thread running through each one of these essays,