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Mysticism and Reform, 1400–1750 eds. by Sara S. Poor and Nigel Smith (review)

nected to the argument in Paul von Federn’s On the Psychology of Revolution: The Fatherless Society of 1919, which is analysed in a final chapter together with Freud’s Totem and Taboo. Weineck concludes that Freud has opened the cultural space to debate paternity for sons who, by refusing to see themselves as fathers and by eschewing any talk about their own sons, transform the “son’s son into the most repressed figure in the twentieth century” (171). Full of interesting aperçus, this is an engagingly written book that offers a broad angle on a topic that never seems outdated. Although Weineck puts forward a mostly conceptual thesis, it is obviously historically inflected as it addresses shifting discursive patterns from Sophokles to Freud. At times, this evolutive strand of the argument could have been borne out by a clearer focus on the historical contexts (especially the German texts seem a little underexplored in their rich cultural and historical contexts) and the argument could further have been strengthened by a more explicit elaboration of the criteria for the text selection. Having said that, Weineck takes us on an interesting and in this form novel journey through the centuries, delivering her thoughts in an immaculate, captivating style.