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...week he published a second novel that is just as melodramatic as his first, a little longer, equally swift reading. It has its quota of close shaves, fights, flights and two-dimensional characters, suggests an old-fashioned pulp magazine thriller brought up to date by a writer who knows Freud as well as all tricks of suspense. Its hero (and narrator) is a world-famous singer who has lost his voice as well as his self-respect, expresses himself in language more appropriate to a police reporter than a star of the Metropolitan...
...august contemporary, Goethe, studying with Olympian detachment Heine's twisted mixture of harshness and tenderness, irony and romantic feeling, concluded that "Heine has every gift- except love." Psychoanalyst Freud more justly attributes Heine's acerbities to a defense mechanism, functioning with doubled power because he was not only a poet, but a Jew. Author Untermeyer, Jew and poet also, and a lifelong admirer of Heine's works, adopts in general the Freudian view, fills it out with consistent sympathy and understanding. If he errs in ascribing a more-than-probable importance to a bit of blighted calf...
...FREUD, GOETHE, WAGNER - Thomas Mann-Knopf ($2). Expanded versions of three lectures delivered by the author on his recent whirlwind anti-Nazi crusade in New York (TIME...
Died. Dr. Alfred Adler, 67, Viennese psychologist, founder of the school of "individual psychology," originator of the phrase "inferiority complex," longtime professional enemy of Dr. Sigmund Freud, his old teacher; after collapsing in ihe street; in Aberdeen, Scotland...
...presents a conventional Leftist picture, his casual digressions on Spanish temperament, Spanish intellectuals, anarchists, dancing, Barcelona slums, are fresh and vivid. Best is his account of a visit, before the revolution, to Barcelona's vice-ridden Fifth District. Although he had "read about everything in Havelock Ellis and Freud," when he encountered the spectacle of perversities for sale he found his imagination could not grasp the social reality. Opposed to this grim description of "the most tragic human cantonment in Europe," are his reminiscences of a great syndicalist convention he attended in Zaragoza before the war, where die-hard...