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This volume, the third in a series of three, is edited for the International Psychoanalytical Association. It is an absolute gem! The format for the three volumes is similar: a seminal paper of Freud's is taken as a starting point, and a group of distinguished psychoanalytic clinicians/theoreticians discuss the paper from their unique perspectives. They focus on the original significance of Freud's paper, the impact the paper has had on psychoanalytic thinking, and then on its current relevance in psychoanalytic practice.
The first volume in this series centered on Freud's 1937 paper, “Analysis Terminable and Interminable.” The second volume took as its starting point Freud's 1914 paper “On Narcissism: An Introduction.” Freud's 1915 paper “Observations on Transference-Love” is the focus of the current work. This paper, on the erotic transference, is rather short and is the last of six brief papers on technique published between 1911 and 1915. The contributors who discuss this classical paper are Freidrich-Wilhelm Eickhoff from Germany, Robert S. Wallerstein from the United States, Roy Schafer from the United States, Max Hernandez from Peru, Betty Joseph from England, Merton M. Gill from the United States, Fidias Cesio from Argentina, Jorge Canestri from Argentina, Takeo Doi from Japan, and Daniel N. Stern from the United States. I will not summarize and review the individual contributions; they are all very nicely abstracted by Person in her introduction. Each of the 10 discussants considers Freud's 1915 paper from a somewhat different theoretical position, and as the book unfolds there emerges a rich and diverse mosaic of intellectual thought.
In 1915, Freud's paper on transference-love was of critical importance to the psychoanalytic movement scientifically and