The Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Sandor Ferenczi, Vol. 3, 1920-1933: Ernst Falzeder and Eva Brabant (Eds.; Peter T. Hoffer, Trans.), Cambridge, MA:  Harvard University Press, 2000,  473 pp., $59.95.

Although this is the third and final volume of the Freud-Ferenczi letters, researchers are still at an early stage of understanding Freud as a correspondent. Even though so far there are over a dozen books of Freud's letters in English, there is still much more to come in the future: For example, the long-awaited correspondence with Freud's future wife Martha has still not been published. And other fresh books of Freud letters can be expected to be steadily appearing over the next couple of decades. Further, new editions of Freud's already published letters to Karl Abraham, Lou Andreas-Salomé, Oscar Pfister, and Arnold Zweig are required because unfortunately the original editions of these four correspondences were expurgated on no consistent principles. Although a future generation will be able to be more secure in its assessment of Freud's letter-writing, I think that the Freud–Ferenczi correspondence, and in particular this most recent volume, will continue to be of outstanding interest. (I have found it more absorbing than either the Freud letters to Fliess or the Freud-Jung correspondence, but that could be a distortion of interest due to my own subjective response or a consequence of my own particular expertise.)

It is already the case that the work of Sandor Ferenczi (1873-1933), who was Freud's chief disciple in Hungary and someone for many years (starting in 1908) dear to his heart, has given rise to a whole separate