Volume I of the three-volume Freud-Ferenczi correspondence closes with Freud's letter from Vienna, dated June 28, 1914, to his younger colleague in Budapest: "I am writing under the impression of the surprising murder in Sarajevo, the consequences of which cannot be foreseen ' "Now," he continues in a more familiar vein, "to our affairs " The nation-shattering events of World War I form a somber canvas for "our affairs" and the exchanges of the...