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This comprehensive one-volume bibliography of Freud's writings remedies the problem of dispersement of information: it contains
bibliographic data which were previously scattered through volumes I, VI, and X of Grinstein's Index of Psychoanalytic Writings. In addition to remedying this awkward and inconvenient arrangement, the present work updates and corrects the material. It also provides extended coverage of references to newly published materials, such as Freud's previously unpublished letters, and it mentions new translations of his works in different languages. It even includes the listing of many "out of the way" translations.
Confusion has been posed by inconsistency in the terms used for Freud's introductions both to his own writings and to those of other authors. Grinstein has clarified this by providing a separate section (III) dealing with them. This is an important improvement over previous bibliographies. The section, in Part A, now lists, Vorwort, Vorrede, Geleitwort, Introduction, and Preface to Freud's writings when these words were used specifically by Freud. Part B lists Freud's introductions to the works of other authors, including letters to authors which then were used as prefaces.
The user would do well to take sufficient time to read the detailed and clear introduction carefully in order to be able to extract the most comprehensive information from the book. This bibliography, as Grinstein rightly states, "while comprehensive must be regarded as incomplete," since new materials and new translations will undoubtedly appear as time goes on. It is to be hoped that updated new editions will be forthcoming which will incorporate references to those new publications.
The compactness of this bibliography, in contrast with the dispersion of the information in its earlier existing version, and the arrangement of the information in special sections of bibliographic interest provide a rapidly usable, effective guide to Freud's writings and thei