Although the amount of material written about Freud continues to expand, areas of his life still arise that require illumination. Certainly his family life is not as well known as Freud students would have liked, and in this volume Roazen is fulfilling a pressing need. When it comes to learning the details of the development of the psychoanalytic movement, that is, the lives of psychoanalysts and the people with whom they have been involved, more and more it is Paul Roazen's work that must be consulted. He has unearthed startling facts that were not widely known until he began to use his pick and shovel.

The unusual configuration of Freud's family life was early alluded to in Ernest Jones's biography. How unusual to have nephews older than oneself. But as the years advanced and more adults and children were added, the people with whom Freud could have close relationships have become almost impossible to sort out. With the exception of his prominent daughter, Anna, little was known even abut Freud's children. Roazen corrects this shortcoming. With the deflation of the