The Complete Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Ernest Jones 1908-1939: Edited by R. Andrew Paskauskas. Cambridge, MA/London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 1993. Pp. 1 + 836.

Beyond any doubt, Ernest Jones was a crucial figure in the history of psychoanalysis. He heavily influenced what psychoanalysis has become, be it in its public image, its institutions or its publications—initially in the English-speaking countries but, through their influence, also world-wide.

Jones is probably best known as a biographer of Freud and as a historiographer of psychoanalysis (Jones, 1953), (1955), (1957), but let us not forget his influential contributions to the shaping of the organisational structure of psychoanalysis: he was the president of the IPA with by far the longest period in office (1920-24, 1934-49), being responsible for the 'cause' of analysis in critical times, such as during the Nazi period in Germany, saving Freud's family and many other analysts, and he was the founder of the Journal. He supervised the translation work of Strachey and Riviere, and was the originator of the 'glossary' of English terms for psychoanalytic concepts. His founding of the American