This book sets out to show the contribution psychoanalysis can make to the study of politics. The extent to which it is successful in doing this varies greatly in different parts of the book. The psychoanalytic approach shows most clearly in the first section, 'Skills' which leans heavily on the work of Harold D. Lasswell with extensive references to other psychoanalysts such as Jaques, some of whom are also social scientists. In the second section, 'Outlooks', the psychoanalytic contribution is much less obvious and, indeed, seems to sink almost without trace under the weight of a detailed application of Robert Bales' character typology to some 35 classical