It seems to me that there has been a recent resurgence of psychoanalytic interest in love and hate. This book is one of several recently published on the subject. It is comprised of the five papers and three discussions which were presented at the Twenty-fifth Annual Margaret Mahler Symposium.

Selma Kramer leads off with a paper entitled “Parents' Hatred of Their Children: An Understudied Aspect of Cross-Generational Aggression.” Parricide has its counterpart in filicide. Witness the myth of Oedipus itself, an instance of child abuse at the start, and the many other violations of the rights of children. An extension of her thesis is that wars are declared by older men who then send their sons off to fight and to die.

Three papers by Harold Blum, Otto Kernberg, and Fred Pine, together with their formal discussants, form the centerpiece of this book. Blum's paper, “Sanctified Aggression, Hate, and the Alteration of Standards and Values,” extends the forming of the individual