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Within psychoanalysis, there are few commentators as trenchant and insightful as Morris Eagle. In fact, it has been that way for decades, beginning perhaps with his Recent Developments in Psychoanalysis: A Critical Evaluation (Eagle, 1984), although I would go further back to his early theoretical articles in the 1970s and early 1980s. Prior to then, most of Eagle's work had been in studies of psychodynamic aspects of cognition for the Research Center for Mental Health at New York University, which had been led by George Klein and Robert Holt, a biographical fact that I mention here to underscore, with reference to the volume under review, Core Concepts in Classical Psychoanalysis, that his understanding of research on unconscious mental processes is in fact considerable. And when Eagle turned to his groundbreaking critiques of classical psychoanalysis, he was walking in the footsteps of the great post-Rapaport figures like Holt (1989), Klein (1976), Gill (1994), and Schafer (1976), another fact that I mention not only because the importance of the Rapaport tradition is in danger of being lost to readers of this journal but also to point out the significance of his intellectual pedigree. Eagle's views over the years, as this review will document, are perhaps most similar to those of Holt in his attempt to maintain a connection to highly revised metapsychology, rather than to reject metapsychology altogether in the manner of George Klein, Gill, and Schafer, also in his attempt to ground his critique of psychoanalytic ideas in current scientific research. Although his efforts in this regard go back on www.pep-web.org to 1973, I would particularly note his “Interests as Object Relations” (Eagle, 1981), written at the dawn of the relational age and his first article to articulate a clear theoretical view of his own, rather a critique of others' views. In this magisterial article, also available as Eagle (1983), he argues—this was before Greenberg and Mitchell's (1983) g