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This is a fine book, and we are much indebted to its editors.
After a biographical tribute by Blum, we are given summaries of Arlow's contributions in the areas of theory, practice, and applied analysis. Kramer traces Arlow's emphasis on the impact of unconscious fantasy on such phenomena as déjà vu, disturbances in the sense of time, and depersonalization. He also notes Arlow's work with Brenner,1 in which these authors asserted the superiority of Freud's later, structural theory of the mind in the understanding and treatment of patients. In his papers on unconscious fantasy,2 Arlow discussed how cognition and perception become embroiled in conflict. Kramer also speaks of Arlow's views on technique, which go beyond the concept of empathy to include the recognition of conflict and the use of cognitively correct interpretations.
Francis Baudry, in writing of Arlow's work in applied analysis, mentions his indebtedness to Hanns Sachs's "The Community of Daydreams": Sachs had advanced the notion of the artist's expressing the mutually shared daydreams of the audience, thereby diminishing their guilt.3 Baudry notes that the concept of unconscious fantasies clearly lies at the core of Arlow's work. Other papers deal with the vicissitudes of aggression and the primal scene. Baudry praises the excellence of Arlow's criteria, which include "similarity, repetition, and confluence of theme organized by coherence and consistency of data" (p. 48).