ABSTRACT
W. R. D. Fairbairn has made a sincere and bold attempt to revise psychoanalytic metapsychology in the light of his own clinical experience and through the private thinking that he has done while applying himself to the therapeutic task. The reader will be able to enrich himself by sharing the gradual evolution of a personal theory which is clearly presented by the method of a chronological order in the arrangement of the papers. Whether one agrees or disagrees with Fairbairn's theory, there is very much to be gained from a study of his way of looking at things. It is possible to get something out of Fairbairn's work on dreams by considering the relationship of his concept of introjection of the bad object to the work of Freud on repetition-compulsion. Again Fairbairn, who does not allow for primary creativity in his theory, could claim to have indicated his belief in it by quoting his comment.
