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The hopeful anticipation aroused by the title in this reviewer: 'He who says "ego" must also say "id"', was doomed to disappointment because the book is written for the test-conscious psychologist who is at home in the psychology laboratory, and who hardly considers psychoanalysis worthy of honorable mention. The first six chapters deal with attitudes, methodological considerations, experimental facts, and an attempt to define ego in terms of attitudes. In the seventh chapter, The Genetic Formation of the Ego, the analyst would expect to find a hint of genetic-analytic psychology, but no analytic formulation or concept or even author is mentioned. In a later chapter, Ego-Involvements and Identifications in Group Situations, one looks in vain for reference to such a landmark in group psychology as, for instance, Freud's Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego. It is hardly imaginable that thirteen chapters could be written with such systematic negligence of analytic