Gestallung Und Ausdruck Der Personlichkeit (Ii Teil Der “Grundzuge Einer Genetischen Psychologie”). By Dr. Otto Rank. Franz Deuticke, Leipzig und Wien. 1928. Pp.  104.

In the first volume Professor Rank has attempted to assemble and correlate the fundamentals of genetic psychology. The subject matter has been arranged in three parts, each one of which includes many topics for discussion. The first part deals with two large subjects, viz.: Psychoanalytic problems and the general foundations of genetic psychology. The former is a descriptive survey setting forth in a systematic and interesting manner some historical considerations, conceptions of idea formations, matters of terminology, the importance of the edipus and castration conflicts, the phenomena of transference and resistance, symbolism, and the question of interpretation. Here also as special topics Rank has discussed in the light of his own fairly well known theories: the various aspects of the neurosis, the ego and reality, the “angst” problem and its libido relations and implications, and the separation from the mother. The physiological process of birth is here given as the source of “Angst” and particularly of “Neurotic Angst.” The genesis of symptoms and the quantitative factor in these early situations are always skillfully