ABSTRACT
The world of university scholarship remains at too great a distance from the teaching of psychoanalysis, and therefore when a book like The Complete Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Ernest Jones 1908-1939, edited by R. Andrew Paskauskas, 1 appears one is left more than a little uncertain how to begin describing it. Students in training read certain key papers by Freud, and then a batch of texts usually written by analysts who are chiefly notable by virtue of their being geographically or nationally familiar. The work of intellectual historians is too rarely considered relevant to understanding the analytic past. If one travels around the world, visiting various centers of analytic training, it is possible to sense just how parochial the educational situation is apt to be.
