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Before the reviewer can return to loftier aims he is, quite rightly and for the sake of elementary justice, expected to establish the author's purpose. What is the aim of this volume on Freud as a 'Maker of Modern Social Science' and for whom is it written? Several of the papers which make up the book, criticize Freud's ideas and attitudes so severely that the reader will wonder how Freud ever became a 'Marker of Modern Social Science'. On the other hand, Marcuse, the author of one of the papers, criticizes those unsparingly who saw fit to modify some of Freud's basic ideas and create new schools of psychoanalysis. Fromm is among Marcuse's black sheep and, indeed, he contributes the article to Roazen's book which is most critical of Freud. Several of the papers, critical of, or accepting psychoanalysis, are more concerned with a kind of social metatheory of conditions leading to it than with the thing itself. Fromm, Riesman and Marcuse belong in this group and, in a somewhat different manner, Parsons. Erikson's paper, published in 1965, deals with the application of psychoanalysis to history. Brunner and Fromm focus on what they believe to be Freud's image of Man, Fromm's contribution being a section of his book The Crisis of Psychoanalysis, published in 1970. Both Fromm and Marcuse present the bemused reader with the illuminating spectacle of two vastly divergent appraisals of Freud—including the extent of his radicalism—both derived from the same Marxist premises. Marcuse's essay is a part of his book Eros and Civilization, published in 1966. Then there is Parsons' important article 'The Superego and the Theory of Social Systems', first published in 1952. Riesman's 'The Themes of Work and Play in the Structure of Freud's Thought', one of a quartet of papers on themes in Freud was published in 1950. Sapir's fine paper, 'Cultural Anthropology and Psychiatry' appeared in 1932, and H. D. Laswell's methodological classic, 'The Prolonged Insight Interview o