It is the woman herself who impresses us in these pages. More than the theoretical conceptions, more than her comments on analytic practice, more than the details of her complex and fascinating life, it is Marie Langer herself who emerges from this volume. Perhaps unfortunately, however, Langer and her life must be virtually constructed by the reader. The structure of the book—consisting of multiple interviews by a number of psychologists and journalists, a long segment of autobiography, commentary, and interpretation from here and there—provides an image of the woman, but it is a