To a psychoanalyst, an attempt to summarize psychoanalytic psychology by pursuing the development of Freud's thought in two hundred thirty-three pages seems either heroic or absurd. Fancher's book, however, is not meant for analysts. It is also not intended as a popularization, nor as an elementary exposition for the interested layman. Fancher says the work was undertaken in response to experiences with graduate and undergraduate students of psychology. This academic but analytically unsophisticated audience is the object