It is very difficult to review this contribution for a variety of reasons: two of the three authors are training analysts in the Toronto Psychoanalytic Institute, and all three are clearly influenced heavily by existential philosophy. As I read literature influenced by existential philosophy, two diametrically opposed tensions come to mind. On one hand, I have a sense of excitement that the material being discussed is touching on some deep, basic psychological structures within the human condition not captured in the more pedestrian, scientifically based psychological theories. On the other hand, I am struck by a peculiar emptiness generated by the grandiose, highly abstract, and intellectual concepts used to