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This volume is an ambitious effort to provide not only a modern reading of Freud's writings about technique but also a description of the historical development of Freud's clinical work, which was, of course, the basis of his theorizing about technical issues. The book includes Freud's essays and Ellman's annotations and summaries of a sampling of work by important post-Freudian psychoanalysts. This makes it an especially convenient and accessible resource for students struggling to gain a foothold in the complex mass of psychoanalytic literature on issues of technique. In reproducing Freud's writings, Ellman uses the translations of Joan Riviere rather than the more familiar versions in The Standard Editon.
The book is presented in six parts divided into seventeen chapters. Part I is a clear summary of the foundations of Freud's earliest attempts to conceptualize his new clinical observations and includes a review of the case of Dora. Part II is entitled “Transference as a Concept” and contains chapters on the evolution of Freud's understanding of transference, as well as the texts of “The Transference Papers” and a chapter entitled “Contemporary Perspectives” in which Ellman summarizes some of the post-Freudian theoretical contributions to our modern notions of transference.
The format of Part II is repeated in Parts III-V, which are titled, respectively, “Dream Interpretation,” “Clinical Practice,” and “Freud's Final Views.” Each part begins with a chapter outlining the development of Freud's thinking, is followed by an annotated