"The papers in this book range widely over psychoanalysis, literature and philosophy. I will comment on several that grasped my attention. First 'Freud's "selected fact" His Journey of Mourning.' By identifying Freud's personal experiences of mourning, Schimmel is able to shine new light on the fact that Freud was always thinking anew about the distressing sorrow of mourning and the possibility of this being avoided by a fall into melancholy...