Georg Groddeck died in 1934 but his books are still being published in German and in English. His place in the history of psychoanalysis is assured by Freud's recognition of him in his adoption of Groddeck's term, 'the it', known in analytic terminology as 'the id'. Now a new book has been edited which includes, first, the correspondence between Groddeck and Freud from 1917 through 1934. Only a few of these letters have been published before and it is a pleasure to have them all available. There are also letters to his brother, his wife, and to his friend, Sandor Ferenczi.

The second section of the book is devoted to Groddeck's articles which appeared regularly in a journal he published for the use of his hospitalized patients. The last third of the book contains