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By Humberto Nagera, et al. New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1969. 194 pp.
BASIC PSYCHOANALYTIC CONCEPTS ON THE THEORY OF DREAMS. The Hampstead Clinic Psychoanalytic Library, Vol. II. By Humberto Nagera, et al. New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1969, 121 pp.
These volumes are the result of a coöperative effort by members of the Concept Research Group of the Hampstead Clinic. The editor hopes that they will be of special interest to students by offering summaries of Freud's writings on various concepts. The summaries consist of quotations or paraphrases from the Standard Edition of Freud's Psychological Works. Each reference is to title, volume, and page, so that 'the student can readily find his way back to Freud's work in order to pursue and become more fully acquainted with his formulations'. It may be noted that there are also frequent references in Volume I to Freud's letters to Fliess, published in The Origins of Psychoanalysis.
The concepts considered in Volume I are twenty-four in number. Their scope and diversity may be suggested by the following samples: Source, Pressure, Aim, and Object of the Sexual Component Instinct; Oedipus Complex; Latency; and Perversion. As a general rule, the authors have tried to indicate the growth of Freud's theories,