The Concordance to the Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud: Edited by Samuel A. Guttman with the collaboration of Stephen M. Parrish and Randall L. Jones. Six Volumes. Pp. 5512. New York: International Universities Press. 1980.

A Concordance, according to the Oxford English Dictionary is 'an alphabetical arrangement of the principal words contained in a book, with citations of the passages in which they occur'. The records indicate that the first Concordances were put together (in what must have been a painfully tedious process) in the thirteenth century, and dealt with the words, phrases, and texts in the Bible. It does not appear that Concordances were ever a popular form of literature. As might be expected there is a Shakespeare Concordance as well as studies on works by Byron, Johnson, and Emily Dickinson. The Freud Concordance was first published in 1980, an event which did not receive appropriate notice in these columns but was recognized in the analytic press as a significant contribution to psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic scholarship. In 1983 the Concordance was transferred to a new publisher, and a second edition was issued. What follows is both an overdue and a timely 'critique' of this opus. I put 'critique' within quotes, because my review is a personal and subjective essay rather than a truly scientific evaluation.

The publisher offers the following concise description of how the Concordance is organized and operates: 'The Concordance lists in context over one million words and phrases found in the Strachey translation. The alphabetical arrangement