As readers of JPCS are of course aware, Bringing the Plague‘s title alludes to a comment attributed to Freud as he and Jung approached the United States: “Little do they know we are bringing the plague.” What I found surprising about this familiar allusion is the editors’ explicit desire to plague psychoanalysis with postmodernism, when the most recent tendency of so much work in the humanities has been precisely the reverse.1 Both my surprise and the absence of any reference to this humanistic work by the contributors indicate how pressing is the need for a book like Bringing the Plague, one that allows relational clinicians and theorists the opportunity to grapple publicly with concepts and interpretive strategies that at times echo those of the humanities. The editors close their introduction