m expressing appreciation of the author's observations, for their intrinsic worth is their very sufficient commendation. The book consists of lectures published at various intervals from 1896 onwards, and herein gathered into a complete presentation of the author's views on hysteria. As is inevitable in lecture-form, there are repetitions, but the gain in vividness of presentment atones for occ...

While ther is no evidence that Freud ever had in analysis a leading political figure, he did analyze the sister of one, and made her the basis of an important case study. Dora's brother, Otto Bauer, was an influential Marxist theoretician and leader of the Austrian Socialist Party from 1918 to 1934. Freud's Dora case illuminates the psychodynamics of Otto Bauer's life and career, and a re-exami...