An engaging psychoanalytic study that provides you with therapeutic tools for your practice. It includes current psychoanalytic insights, detailed case studies, and numerous examples from world literature. New in the 3rd edition: Kafka and Joseph Conrad. Wurmser is compelling due to the subtlety and sharpness of his observations, the thoughtfulness of his methodology, and the reflectiveness of his epistemology. You cannot put this book down without being changed by the reading. Studying this work—a exemplary contribution to modern psychoanalysis—offers a rare enrichment.