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The current volume is dedicated to Dr. Hartmann in celebration of his seventieth birthday and the editors are to be congratulated for their novel presentation. They could have published his latest paper but then this yearbook would not have differed from all the other yearbooks. They could have commissioned a paper describing his achievements, but this has already been done by Solnit in another issue of This QUARTERLY. Or they could have asked Hartmann to define his achievements and contributions, a prerogative of an elder of a scientific discipline. The editors eschewed the commonplace, dramatically resurrected an old paper written thirty-five years ago in German, and translated it into English expressly for this volume. This is exciting. What must have been regarded by his 1930 contemporaries as misty adumbrations and irresponsible speculations has become a beacon defining the future of psychoanalysis by describing a rational and valid method for the formation of scientific propositions. The goals and techniques for experimentation are as fresh today as they were radical thirty-five years ago.
The editors provided a more subtle and hence more flattering portrayal of him by an unwitting and unplanned circumstance. Of the first thirteen theoretical articles in this Annual, the bibliographies of all but one mention Hartmann. This single abstention will be considered later in the review.
Hartmann's paper established psychoanalysis as a science with the goal of establishing a general theory of human behavior. Methodologically it resembles other scientific disciplines. Concepts are created and used in the same way as in the physical sciences, even though planned experimentation is not always possible. Concepts derived by finding causal connections capable of being genetically derived enrich our observations and allow further penetration to the core of the personality.
Korner's contribution is an attempt to explore the manner in which congenital drive endowment