This monograph-size book will appeal to those whose taste runs to dealing abstractly with the abstract. A philosophic reflection on the psychoanalytic interchange, it deals minutely and elegantly with an interpretation of interpretations, an explanation of explanations, the meaning of meaning. At the opposite pole the author seems aware of the desirability of retaining an anchor in the clinical psychoanalytic process. This is not provided, however, with the same intensity or detail as the running theoretical message. His clinical referents are