Herbert Rosenfeld Then and Now - The Significance of His Work for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. Edited by Karin Johanna Zienert-Eilts and Wolfgang Hegener. London:  Karnac, 2024.  241 pp.

This important book represents a very competent work of love by the editors, the contributing authors, and the colleagues who worked to make this anthology possible, all of them composing a unique international network. The book explores Herbert Rosenfeld, who is one of the most important Kleinian authors and was particularly appreciated as a supervisor in both Germany and Italy. After his death in 1986 at the age of seventy-six, Rosenfeld was honored with a Memorial Meeting in the year 2000 on the occasion of what would have been his ninetieth birthday. The 2008 anthology Rosenfeld in Retrospect: Essays on his Clinical Influence, edited by John Steiner, came out of that meeting.1 In 2014, the German

Psychoanalytic Society (DPG) organized the first German commemorative conference in Rosenfeld’s native town of Nuremberg. In 2015, its proceedings were published by the conference organizers—Harald Kamm and myself—in a monographic issue2 of Luzifer-Amor, a journal on the history of psychoanalysis. In 2018 in Berlin, the symposium “Herbet Rosenfeld. Psychoanalytic perspectives on clinic and culture” was held, initiated, and organized by Karin Johanna Zienert-Eilts, Wolfgang Hegener, and Johannes Reicheneder, the three editors of the German original edition (20203) of the anthology under review. The English edition reproduces the Preface by Irma Brenman Pick and contains a new Preface to the English edition by John Steiner. It includes almost all the contributions of the original German edition, plus Rosenfeld’s bibliography, and a rich biographical appendix including several documents and pictures. As far as the reconstruction of Rosenfeld’s life is concerned, a key role was played by his daughter Angela, a group therapist in Sheffield, whom Harald Kamm and I had been able to involve in the 2014 Nuremberg event, which took place at the hotel where the International Psychoan