ABSTRACT
Peter Rudnytsky’s The Psychoanalytic Vocation: Rank, Winnicott, and the Legacy of Freud 1 is an excellent book. In his new text Rudnytsky tries to appreciate developments in psychoanalytic theory which have sought to correct certain striking imbalances within Freud’s thinking. In Freud and Oedipus Rudnytsky stood out for his independence in appraising Freud’s career and thought; now Rudnytsky has continued to approach psychoanalytic ideas without the contraints which orthodoxy so often imposes on students of the history of psychoanalysis.
