COVER -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Joan Riviere: Her life and work -- CHAPTER ONE: Early short papers -- Three notes -- The castration complex in a child -- A castration symbol -- Phallic symbolism -- Magical regeneration by dancing -- The theory of dreams -- CHAPTER TWO: The beauty of translation -- Review of James Strachey's translation of Sigmund Freud, Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego -- CHAPTER THREE: Four uncompromising book reviews -- Review of David Forsyth, The Technique of Psycho-Analysis -- Review of R. H. Hingley, Psycho-Analysis -- Review of C. W. Valentine, Dreams and the Unconscious -- Review of F. Alvah Parsons, The Psychology of Dress -- CHAPTER FOUR: Polemics -- Symposium on child analysis -- CHAPTER FIVE: Defensive femininity -- Womanliness as a masquerade -- CHAPTER SIX: Possibly the first contribution concerning envy of the primal scene -- Jealousy as a mechanism of defence -- CHAPTER SEVEN: Freud in the 1930s -- Review of Sigmund Freud, New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis -- CHAPTER EIGHT: Those wrecked by success -- A contribution to the analysis of the negative therapeutic reaction -- CHAPTER NINE: Freud's autobiography -- Review of Sigmund Freud, An Autobiographical Study -- CHAPTER TEN: Public lectures -- Hate, greed and aggression -- CHAPTER ELEVEN: A moving tribute to Freud -- An intimate impression -- CHAPTER TWELVE: Bereavement -- The bereaved wife -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Freud-the questioner -- Book review of Sigmund Freud, The Question of Lay Analysis -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Kleinian thinking in the 1950s -- General introduction to Melanie Klein, Paula Heimann, Susan Isaacs, and Joan Riviere, Developments in Psycho-Analysis -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Early psychological development: London/Vienna.

On the genesis of psychical conflict in earliest infancy -- CHAPTER SIXTEEN: The inner world as seen in literature -- The unconscious phantasy of an inner world reflected in examples from literature -- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: An inner world -- The inner world in Ibsen's Master-Builder -- CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: A last word about Freud -- A character trait of Freud's -- References -- Index.