Book review of Norbert Elias’ The Civilising Process

Foulkes and Elias knew each other from the time both were in Frankfurt. They met again in London and even planned a joint book. This review of the first volume of Elias’ main work was intended to draw the attention of psychoanalysts to current sociological thought. It was published also in a German version in Imago, and Foulkes later also reviewed the second volume of Elias’s work, both in English and in German.