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BACK TO FREUD'S TEXTS Making Silent Documents Speak by Ilse Grubrich-Simitis translated by Philip Slotkin New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996, xv + 322 pp., $35.00.
The German edition, Zurück zu Freuds Texten, was reviewed by G. W. Pigman III, Ph.D. in Psychoanalytic Books (5, , 21-24). Prof. Pigman called it “the most important book ever written about Freud as an author” (p. 21) and one can only endorse his enthusiasm for this work. It is a brilliant piece of scholarship by a careful researcher and its appearance in English is cause for celebration.
BIOGRAPHISCHES LEXIKON DER PSYCHOANALYSE Die Mitgleider der Psychologischen Mittwoch-Gesellschaft und der Wiener Psychoanalytischen Vereinigung 1902-1938 by Elke Mühlleitner Tübingen: Edition Diskord, 1992, 400 pp., 70 DM
Elke Mühlleitner's biographies of the members of the Psychological Wednesday Society and the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society is a major achievement and an invaluable reference work for students of the history of psychoanalysis. With almost 150 entries, a chronology of the Vienna Society, and valuable bibliographic references it is a view of the early psychoanalytic pioneers during this most formative period of psychoanalysis cut short by World War II. In German.
THE COLLECTED PAPERS OF DAVID RAPAPORT edited by Merton M. Gill Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, 1996 (original work published ), x + 946 pp., $60.00
Thirty years after its first appearance this monumental work by a giant of psychoanalytic psychology is back in print and part of the Master Work Series published by Jason Aronson. The 65 papers and book reviews attest to the breadth of Rapaport's interests. From ego autonomy and ego psychology to the association concept and Rorschach studies Rapaport's writing is always incisive. Merton Gill's appreciation of