Psychoanalysis and the Future: A Centenary Commemoration of the Birth of Sigmund Freud: Edited by B. Nelson. New York: National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis, Inc., 1957. 160 pp.

To commemorate the centenary of Freud's birth, the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis has issued this collection of essays, suggestive rather than definitive, and for the most part dealing with the impact of Freud's teaching in fields other than psychotherapy. Evaluation of these pieces must vary from reader to reader, but to this reviewer the most basic and fascinating is that in which Feldman, largely through philology, reveals the close parallels and identifications between present-day socioeconomic institutions and freudian psychodynamics. Desmond shows how dynamics very similar to these were described independently by G. H. Mead, an American contemporary of Freud. In slightly different vein, Weisskopf tells how, in this country, social sciences and theoretical psychoanalysis have come to grips with each other, somewhat to the detriment of the latter. Bensman and Vidich study thoughtfully the antithesis between community life in the United States as it is and as it is supposed to be, and speculate about what effects, remote or immediate, clinical psychoanalysis will have on the lives of members of these communities. In similar fashion, Watson considers education, and Sulzberger, sex life. Walker describes the freudian psyche in terms simple enough to suit the radio broadcast for which the piece was first intended, and with the wit and precision which so often stamp the Oxford-bred writer. Taubes's consideration of religion can well be taken as an appendix to Freud's writings on the same subject. A new dimension is added by Bychowski's succinct exposition of the use of artistic symbols since the first caveman drew a bison on the walls of his home. Descriptions of an interview