The title of The One and the Many, a book of papers by Mexican psychoanalyst Juan Tubert-Oklander, is truly descriptive. Nominally, this compendium describes one thing: “the articulation of individual mental processes and social phenomena” (p. 108), or the value of group analytic theory to individual psychoanalysis. It is also about many things, including South American social psychological theory, North American relational psychoanalytic theory and practice, Mexican politics, hermeneutics, translation, philosophy, mythology, and linguistics.

This dazzling array of ideas is buoyed by Tubert-Oklander's writing, which manages to be erudite and cozy at the same time. This salvages the sometimes overwhelming breadth of his interests, which can suffer for being tightly harnessed to the book's purported group analytic theme. Instead, this catchall of collected papers is best read as a sometimes-related, sometimes-unrelated corral of essays. Doing so will be rewarding because Tubert-Oklander offers valuable commentary on several aspects