This substantial volume contains thirty-four articles originally published between 1922 and 1936, carefully edited by Dr. Hanna Fenichel with the help of Dr. Rapaport. A number of the articles have been translated from the German by James and Alix Strachey.

For a contemporary reviewer who has witnessed the development of psychoanalysis since 1921 as an active participant, it is not an easy task to evaluate Fenichel's contributions. Much of our present state of knowledge has been acquired by overcoming some of the defects inherent in previous approaches. This of course is true