It would be a gain if the interest in the topic would lead readers who have not previously engaged with psychoanalysis to take a first step into this realm of thought and knowledge that has long been suppressed in Germany. Those who experienced the years before 1933 with some awareness, albeit as youths, can only marvel today at how oblivious the current generation of 40-year-olds is to this entire complex. Words like 'inferiority complex' or 'unconscious' may have become established in our language, but terms like 'transference' are met with complete incomprehension.