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The title accurately indicates the ambitious scope of this book: the author proposes to present nothing less than a contemporary version of all of psychoanalysis. The result is, by turns, a critique of analytic institutions and ideas on theoretical, political, and philosophical grounds; a psychobiography of Freud, Winnicott, and Kohut; a defense of Freud against some of his critics, and of ego psychological ideas against those of id psychology, object relations theory, and self psychology; and a description of a new attitude that the author hopes