You do not currently have permission to view the full text for this document. Please sign in to an account with an active subscription or contact support.
The narrative line of Paul Roazen's latest monograph is fairly straightforward. Among the illustrious but now almost forgotten psychoanalysts of the past stands Edward Glover, who according to Roazen, has received unfair treatment from biographers, psychoanalysts, and historians alike.1, 2 Almost from the inception of the British Psychoanalytical Society in 1920, Glover stood as Ernest Jones's right-hand man, a faithful “second in command” who occupied a variety of powerful offices for many years: director of the clinic, director of research, chairman of the training committee, scientific secretary, and honorable secretary of the Bulletin of the IPA (p. 23). More notoriously, in the early 1930s, Glover's analysis of Melanie Klein's daughter, Melitta Schmideberg, had begun to fuel the growing opposition to the influence of Klein's clinical theories by 1938, when the Freuds emigrated to London. Caught between two powerful and rivalrous theorists, Klein and Anna Freud, Glover became inextricably entangled in a prolonged struggle for power and dominance in the British Psychoanalytical Society.
Originally an advocate for Klein's ideas, Glover had reversed his opinion by 1935, at which time he “felt that Klein's work became a betrayal of [Sigmund] Freud's own conceptions” (p. xxx). If there was a first victim of the ensuing Controversial Discussions (1941-1944), Roazen would have us believe that Glover was the sole candidate for that distinction by the time he resigned his membership from the British Society in 1944. In Glover's defense, Roazen offers his own