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By Dr. Otto Rank and Dr. Hanns Sachs. Authorised English translation by Dr. Charles R. Payne. Pp. 127. Price 1.50 Dollars.
The History of the Psychoanalytic Movement. By Professor Dr. Sigmund Freud, L.L.D. Pp. 58. Price 0.60 Dollars.
(Nos. 23 and 25 respectively of the Nervous and Mental Disease Monograph Series. Nervous and Mental Disease Publishing Company, New York, 1916.)
These two works, having been published in their English form about six years ago, do not call for extended comment in this Journal. They are, or should be, already familiar to readers of psycho-analytic literature.
The book of Drs. Rank and Sachs forms an invaluable introduction to the non-medical applications of psycho-analysis, indicating the principal fields outside therapeutics on which psycho-analysis is throwing light, or from which it has itself gained useful corroborative material. The wide extent and varied nature of these fields are sufficiently indicated by the titles of the chapters, which, (excluding the introductory chapter) are as follows: Investigation of Myths and Legends; Theory of Religion; Ethnology and Linguistics; Esthetic and Psychology of Artists; Philosophy, Ethics and Law; Pedagogy and Characterology. The domain which is most fully treated is that dealt with in the first of the above mentioned chapters—a chapter that is for the most part devoted to a detailed consideration of the 'Brother motive' as an example of the application of psycho-analysis to folklore.
The book is specially to be recommended to two classes of readers. In the first place those who have studied psycho-analysis solely from its clinical aspects; to such it may well prove a startling revelation of the great vistas opened up by the young science, which they have hitherto known in one of its applications only. In the second place to specialists in the various fields indicated above. It is to be hoped that a careful perusal of the book by a wide circle of such readers on both sides of the A