'This is an extraordinary book. The author is unique in the world of psychoanalytic psychotherapy: he strides the landscape of psychoanalytic theory and of philosophy with equal felicity as though they are, for him, kindred, intimate domains. That he is capable of achieving inter-disciplinary thinking in these disciplines of such a high order is, as the title of the book suggests, a reflection of Rhode's capacity for imaginative contemplation and, through this, the establishment of a mosaic of progressively deepening links in multiple directions.'

- Paul Williams. Joint Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Psychoanalysis