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These papers are fairly well known to practicing psychoanalysts, since, of all the writers in this field, Jones is one of the most satisfactory from the viewpoint of clarity, explicitness and information. We therefore welcome this new edition which reprints a number of his earlier and more fundamental papers, eliminates others, and adds twelve of the papers written since the third edition.
In all the editions a true representation of his work appears in eighty reprinted papers. Thus all of the successive phases through which Dr. Jones has progressed can be glimpsed.
His earliest papers were chiefly expository of the Freudian conceptions. These were alert, cleancut and expressed with much skill and apt phrasing. These attributes have been kept throughout the years, and are explicitly evident in the successive revisions of his book, fortunately kept fresh and invigorating by a careful putting behind certain of his earlier and more ephemeral papers, while holding the solid timbers of his more substantial ones, that on the theory of symbolism, for example, and adding new material of later constructions. Of these newer papers we have in mind his Future of Psycho-Analysis a timely discussion, originally planned as the opening of an exchange lectureship with the Vienna Society, since rudely disrupted. Another, Fear, Guilt and Hate, although not so recent emphasizes what to the reviewer needs iteration and reiteration even if the author has not included the psychosomatic repercussions as trenchantly as had Groddeck or Jelliffe as among the earlier workers and Menninger in more recent times. Occasionally tiny bits of the author's “Jehovah Complex” peeps through as in his 1929 paper on Psycho-Analysis and Psychiatry.