This brief monograph brings together papers originally presented at a day-long symposium at Clark University in 1985 commemorating the 75th anniversary of Freud's visit to the school. Three of the papers are by well-known Freud scholars—Joseph J. Sandler, Peter Gay, and Steven Marcus. A fourth paper, by William A. Koelsch, provides a brief history of the historical circumstances surrounding Freud's visit to Clark in 1911. While providing some interesting moments, the essays' contents are likely to be familiar to a professional audience knowledgeable about Freud and psychoanalytic theory.

Sandler's paper provides what is by now a standard summary of the changes psychoanalytic theory underwent as Freud developed it and the challenges and theoretical offspring it has given birth to since Freud's death. It is interesting to hear Sandler, at this late date, sing the praises of Freud's remarkable ability to demonstrate, and “simply and convincingly” (p. 3) at that, how our unconscious wishes, inevitably sexual in nature, manifest themselves