ABSTRACT

It continues to be the case that the historiography of psychoanalysis contains certain underdogs who are in need of special attention. On the other hand, there is a growing number of books connected with those so-called deviants who at one time or another broke with the ranks of the orthodox “mainstream.” Often, nobody can quite remember who the representatives of the “mainstream” might once have been, since they left so little in the way of memorable writings of their own. But everyone would agree that psychoanalysis has had its share of difficult people who were capable of becoming organizationally troublesome.