(50th anniversary edition.) By Otto Fenichel. 705 pp. New York, W.W. Norton, 1945. $42.50. ISBN 0-393-03890-4.
This is the most important book on psychoanalysis since thoseof Freud. First published in 1945, six years after Freud's deathand just months before the premature death of its brilliantyoung author, it was greeted with uniform acclaim. In his epilogueto this 50th-anniversary edition, Leo Rangell, a disciple ofFenichel, summarizes the consensus of the intervening half-centuryas follows: "From the time of its publication the theory thisbook contained was the baseline." In his preface, Fenichel outlinedhis goal — "to summarize the psychoanalytic doctrinesin a systematic and comprehensive manner." He succeeded brilliantly;no one has . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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