Man and his Culture: Psychoanalytic Anthropology after 'Totem and Taboo': Edited by Warner Muensterberger. New York: Taplinger Publishing Co., 1970. 411 pp.

This timely reader in applied psychoanalysis serves two laudable ends. It brings together a remarkably well chosen series of articles, most of them published previously and each saliently introduced by Dr. Muensterberger's brief and pithy remarks. Included are classics written by renowned social scientists and psychoanalysts, as well as thoughtful, thorough, and insightful contributions by some who are as yet less famed than they merit. Man and His Culture also pays homage to Géza Róheim, the independent thinker and lonely man who 'against all odds in the field of anthropology' fought almost alone for a 'psychoanalytic approach to the science of man'.

Róheim was the first trained psychoanalyst to study preliterate peoples directly. On the basis of his observation of central Australian aborigines, he developed an ontogenetic theory of culture that questioned, on psychoanalytic grounds, Freud's assumption of the primal horde theory. He assumed the differentiation of cultures on the basis of infantile trauma in a specific environment. Currently his great pioneering work is unjustly neglected by anthropologists and psychoanalysts alike, both of whom periodically 'rediscover' findings originally unearthed by Róheim. Dr. Muensterberger is to be commended for directing our attention to his valuable contributions by including three of them in this volume.

In general the articles have been selected from publications that are not readily available; one has been translated from the German. Well-known and easily found contributions such as Erikson's work pertaining to the Sioux and Yurok, are omitted. Of special interest are two recent contributions. In one, the Australian anthropologist, Derek Freeman, reappraises Totem and Taboo from a dual approach. He 'discusses the questionable hypothesis in terms of recent ethological findings and then ventures the psychoanalytic interpretation of Freud's theory of the "primal murder" and comes to the conclusion that it is based