Elementi Di Psicoanalisi: By Edoardo Weiss. With a preface by Sigmund Freud. Second Edition. Milan: Ulrico Hoepli, 1932. 242 p.

This little book, which has been reprinted since it appeared last year in its second edition, well deserves its popularity. It is a concise, erudite, serious, yet for all that thoroughly lucid exposition of the elements of psychoanalysis. The reader will find an exposition

of this subject which makes completely intelligible its basic ideas, which takes him into the fields of metapsychology and symbolism, outlines for him Freud's theory of the instincts, and in the end leaves him well informed as to what psychoanalysis means in theory and practice. Unfailingly clear, the presentation makes not the slightest attempt to water the subject matter nor to proselytize and is consistently sober and objective. Though based on lectures delivered before a medical association, the book contains much that will interest practicing psychoanalysts. Particularly to be recommended are the parts dealing with symbolism and ethnology, in which the author presents fresh material. A thirty page glossary at the back of the book insures an accurate understanding of the technical terms employed in the text.