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The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child has gained increasing recognition as one of the important publications in psychoanalytic literature. It devotes equal attention to the theoretical and the clinical aspects of psychoanalysis. Volume XII contains, as did the preceding volumes, original papers of high quality and interest. It is divided into four main sections: 1, Contributions to Psychoanalytic Theory; 2, Aspects of Early Development; 3, Clinical Contributions; and 4, Applied Psychoanalysis. Heinz Hartmann's lecture, presented on May 28, 1957 at the New York Psychoanalytic Society's memorial meeting for Ernst Kris, late managing editor of The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, is a unique part of this volume. As a close friend, colleague, and collaborator of Kris, Hartmann is well equipped to give us a picture of the gifted and colorful personality whose memory as a theoretician, clinician, and teacher will continue to be cherished.
Within the framework of this review, it will be possible to single out only some of the nineteen stimulating papers. The first section, Contributions to Psychoanalytic Theory, contains papers by Charles Brenner, Jeanne Lampl-de Groot, and Seymour Lustman which deal with some aspects of the mechanisms of defense.
Brenner, in The Nature and Development of the Concepts of Repression in Freud's Writings, examines one mechanism of defense, namely, repression. He provides a historical review, starting with Freud's earliest concept of repression during the period from 1894 to 1896, and ending with his later concept developed between 1923 and 1939. In his final description of Freud's concept, Brenner's formulation of repression amounts to discarding primal repression, which does not seem warranted. In presenting this survey, Brenner shows the influence which clinical observational data had upon