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No. 1. A General Selection from the Works of Sigmund Freud. Edited by John Rickman. (The Hogarth Press and The Institute of Psycho-Analysis, London. Pp. 329. Price 5 s.)
No. 2. Love, Hate and Reparation. By Melanie Klein and Joan Riviere. The Hogarth Press and The Institute of Psycho-Analysis, London. Pp. 119. Price 3 s. 6 d.)
This new series appears to have manifold aims. It will present selections from Freud's writings on different subjects, popular presentations of various aspects of psycho-analysis, and suitable essays on special studies.
The first volume belongs to the first of these categories and is of a general nature. It purports to present a representative selection of Freud's writings on psycho-analysis, which should give the general reader a bird's-eye view of the whole subject, though more particularly from the clinical side. More specialized selections will presumably follow.
The work of selection in this volume, an extremely difficult and invidious task, has been performed with Dr. Rickman's usual care and thoroughness. Such a book would be very useful for the purpose of recommendation to those who wish to approach the subject for the first time.
The second volume in the series belongs to the second category. It consists of two lectures, probably revised, delivered to a public audience under the auspices of the Institute of Psycho-Analysis. It would be invidious to compare the style of the two lecturers, each having such highly-marked characteristics. A feature of the book is the stress laid on the problems of the unconscious in the approximately normal subject, there being not a large number of studies of this kind. It would be superfluous to praise the writings of such well-known psycho-analysts and one need only say that the volume is one that fully sustains their reputations.