Reiner, Annie. (ed.). Of Things Invisible to Mortal Sight: Celebrating the Work of James S. Grotstein. London:  Karnac Books. 2017. Pp.  xix + 279. Pbk. £28.79 ($42.95)

Before i received a copy of the James S. Grotstein Festschrift, i envisioned a tome the size of the Festschrift for W.R. Bion, edited by James Grotstein and

published in 1981. The Festschrift for Bion was close to 700 pages with over 30 author contributions. This Festschrift for Grotstein is just under 300 pages with 15 contributing authors. Edited by Annie Reiner, friend and colleague of the late James Grotstein, this book is not diminished by this comparison. Carefully compiled by Annie Reiner and Grotstein himself before he died in May 2015, this volume makes up a rich grouping of articles that circle and touch upon aspects of psychoanalytic thinking that were dear to Grotstein. Most notable was his devotion to Bion, about whom he wrote nearly exclusively during the last decades of his life.

I imagined a volume as large as that for Bion because Grotstein influenced and touched many people from around the world. As Reiner notes, Grotstein was called the ‘Blurbmeister’ because he read and supported the work of many others. Some chapters are reprinted from previous publications, but the collection still shines. The book is a treasure house of deeply thoughtful articles that explain various psychoanalytic themes inextricably bound up with James Grotstein.

There are chapters written by psychoanalysts such as Joseph Aguayo, Ofra Eshel, Rudi Vermote, Antonino Ferro, Lawrence J. Brown, Thomas Ogden, Carole Beebe Tarantelli, Annie Reiner, Albert Mason, Michael Ian Paul, Avedis Panajian, Celia Fix Korbivcher, Michael Eigen, Lia Pistiner de Cortiñas, as well as James Grotstein himself. The editor's introduction provides an overview of Grotstein, his relationship with Bion, and a summary of what follows. The first chapter, by psychoanalyst and historian Joseph Aguayo, describes Grotstein's early history with psychoanalysis, and it documents his formative years in the psychoanalytic communities of Los Angeles.

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