Although best known as a disseminator of Freudian and Kleinian ideas, the author also contributed important and original material to the body of psychoanalytic literature. This volume presents some of this material and highlights the importance of the author's contribution.

Since her death in 1962, Riviere's reputation has rested principally on her achievement as a translator and lucid disseminator of Freudian and Kleinian ideas. This volume sheds light on her own contributions to psychoanalytic theory and practice. Edited and with a biographical chapter by Athol Hughe