One of the difficulties which the reviewer, and probably the average reader, encounters in reading a work such as this is that of not comparing it with the standard work by Ernest Jones. The folly of such a comparison is obvious. The events and circumstances of which Jones wrote were in large measure part of his own autobiography, he viewed them from within and at first hand. Costigan saw his subject from a greater distance, from the vantage point of another generation. He has used all the biographies and letters of Freud as source material, including that of Jones,