A decade ago, if memory serves, Norman O. Brown described Deleuze and Guatari's book Anti-Oedipus as the death rattle of Freudo-Marxism, or that ambiguous and conflicted attempt to integrate Marx and Freud's emancipatory projects that began in Europe in the late 1920s and absorbed many able intellects until recently. Sadly, however, though it exerted an influence on mainstream culture that was strikingly disproportionate to the actual number of its practitioners, psychoanalytic Marxism is now considered an odd, antiquarian pursuit, or a moldering museum piece to be hastily surveyed by the avant garde before moving on to sexier subject matter.

Though the notion of a Marx-Freud integration seldom elicits much energy or enthusiasm nowadays, for those still interested, Eugene Victor Wolfenstein's book is a welcome reminder that there is still plenty of room for creative theoretical work in this