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Volume 14 contains a wide range of contributions. It begins with Anna Freud's letter to the Goethe University in Frankfurt, which was read at the academic celebration of the honorary doctorate given to Miss Freud in February 1982.
Following this are papers in honor of Erich Simenauer's eightieth birthday. Two of his own contributions on the metapsychology of narcissism are included. One of them, presented to lawyers and judges in 1962 at the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute, discusses the history and anthropology of patricide and its significance for modern penal law. He discusses the psychoanalytic notions of repression, displacement, and oedipal conflicts "to facilitate mental processes in the practitioners of jurisprudence" (p. 81).
H. Beland, one of the editors, gives an overview of the broad spectrum of Simenauer's scientific contributions between 1949 and 1981, emphasizing his research on Rilke. Of special interest is Simenauer's perspective on anti-Semitism in transference and countertransference. His conclusions about the possibility of successful treatment of this "German heritage" are rather skeptical.1
The following contribution by G. Pankow is addressed to Simenauer's concepts of the early self, the development of body limits, and early aggressiveness in relation to narcissism. E. Hinze pleads for the necessity of formulating nosological classifications in psychoanalysis to bridge "the gulf between academic and practical psychoanalysis" (p. 123). Then U. Ehebald considers the current situation of psychoanalysis in Germany, its present challenges, some aspects of its criticism of civilization, and its therapeutic limits.
The more interesting Part III contains various clinical, theoretical, and historical contributions to psychoanalysis. W. Loch, in his "Psychoanalytic Contribution to the Mid-Life Crisis," deals with the