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What is there about Chicago that makes it such a fertile field for the blossoming of ideas about the nature of man and the human condition? In political philosophy we have had Leo Strauss, Eric Voegelin and, of late, Allan Bloom; in economics, Milton Friedman; in literature, Saul Bellow; in psychoanalysis, Heinz Kohut, Ernest Wolf, Arnold Goldberg, and John Gedo (inclusiveness is nowhere intended). Controversial as these individuals may be (Saul Bellow included), they all are or were possessed of immense learning, superior intellects, dedicated scholarship, and devotion to truth as they are or were given to see it.
In some seven books and a host of articles and essay John Gedo has, over the past 20 years, brought his penetrating