Norman O. Brown first came to the attention of the psychoanalytic audience with his book Life Against Death, a psychoanalytic study of history-a work of broad scope, much erudition, and provocative insights. The present work, Love's Body, is therefore a profound disappointment in view of the potential brilliance which Brown has clearly evidenced.

By way of an overall summary to a text which is difficult to classify as either prose or poetry, we would say that Brown has attempted to present a Buddhist interpretation of love and psychoanalysis. He dismisses