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The impact of psychoanalysis has been manifest in many fields of human thought and endeavor for a long time now. This present volume is planned as the first of a series of annual volumes which will present the
psychoanalytic point of view as it is utilized in all fields ranging from anthropology to sociology. There has been widespread and fruitful cooperation between analysis and many of the social sciences. The results of this cooperation are to be assembled in their most significant aspects in a yearly volume. The editor, assisted by a distinguished editorial board, is quick to point out that he will welcome factual contributions even if the author's point of view is not completely psychoanalytical in the Freudian sense. Each volume will be introduced by short essay by the editor covering the relations of psychoanalysis and one of the social sciences. The present volume discusses psychoanalysis and anthropology. The body of the volume is divided into six sections covering anthropology, mythology, religion, literature, history and sociology. There are a total of some fourteen contributions distributed in these six sections. The various papers are of unequal value. While they are all interesting they cannot all be said to carry information of permanent value. The names of the various contributors are nearly all well-known (Kluchhorn, Bunker, Hitschmann, S. Lorand, Bergler, Oberndorf, Kris, Lowenstein, H. Hartmann, Sterba) in analytic circles or in their specialty.
Roheim's introductory essay is an interesting survey of the clashing schools and views in the anthropological field which has been seriously influenced in the past decade by the facts, theories and techniques of psychoanalysis. It is all too short. This reviewer would make the suggestion that in future volumes this sort of introductory essay be longer, more detailed and aimed to orient the non-specialist in the problems and opinions prevailing in the social science being discussed. Clyde Kluckhorn's essay