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...crash by morning. This year September was particularly shuddersome, and its last two shows passed into history even before the calendar did. Out West of Eighth was a strapping bore about cowboys in Manhattan; Twilight Walk, concerned with a sex murderer, was a sad mismating of the tabloids and Freud. As of Oct. 1, there were no newcomers among Broadway's Best Bets...
Read casually, The Holy Sinner seems merely an affectionate embroidery of a pious legend. But that would not be Thomas Mann. As usual, he has glazed the legend with elegant mockery; the notions of Freud creep in to jostle the miracles of faith. Here is a delightful story, Mann seems to say: thanks to God's mercy, an Oedipus with a happy ending. And Mann is too good a pessimist not to conceal his own derisive smile...
That was just before the turn of the century and before Freud had become a legend. As Psychiatrist Fisher, 88, tells it now in A Few Buttons Missing (Lippincott; $3.50), he found Freud "but one of the many distinguished men under whom I studied. And, frankly, one of the less impressive." He adds: "I learned a great deal more about Sigmund Freud by reading about him than I ever learned by listening to him. And I had to wait until he was heralded by the world at large before I . . . could derive any satisfaction from explaining that I used...
...Fisher adds: "Despite any. . . reservations that have prevented me from becoming a rah-rah boy of the Freudian school, I am quite sure that the contributions of Sigmund Freud toward the advancement of psychotherapy far outweigh the contributions of any other ten men I have...
...husband, but a stifled human nature battling forlornly in middle age with the first problem of childhood: to establish an identity. Mother is not merely a domineering woman, but a terrifying archetype of the man-hater, a domestic tyrant whose methods could teach something to Machiavelli, perhaps even to Freud...