This reviewer feels some embarrassment, as may other analysts, that the first comprehensive volume on so basic a psychodynamic force as envy should come from a sociologist, not a psychoanalyst. The author, a professor at Mainz, who spent a year at Yale and eleven years as professor at Emory, has contributed a book which, modest in size, is compendious in scope and remarkably insightful in depth. He has reviewed with thoroughness just about every area and academic field, including psychoanalysis, for the sources, effects, and interactions, inner and outer, of envy—e.g., its childhood sources, envy in animals, in psychology, in the social and behavioral sciences as well as in philosophy and literature, in politics, criminology, law, and emotional life, to mention only some. Such a work confirms the impression that psychoanalytic understanding of the intrapsychic