A sign of the coming of age of psychoanalysis as a scientific discipline is the recent proliferating growth of texts designed to make its basic observations and principles available in systematic cross-sectional (and therefore, essentially ahistorical) form to both neophyte and sophisticate. For long, only the chronology of Freud's monumental productivity, faithfully reflecting his developing (and changing) views as new clinical data constantly rendered old theory insufficient and made theoretic reformulation necessary, was pedagogically available to the psychoanalytic student. This was mirrored in the teaching in our institutes—only in recent years has