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Nobody loves a murderer - but almost everybody loves a good murder story. To find out why people are so interested in murder, Psychoanalyst Theodor Reik, a fan himself, probed the subconscious of detectives, criminologists, judges, juries. His report, published this week (The Unknown Murderer; Prentice-Hall; $3), indicates that the line between murderers and the rest of the population is narrower than most people like to think...
Presidential Portrait. Author Busch, who believes that the truth is generally obvious, re-examines the facts of Mr. Roosevelt's life from the viewpoint of an amateur and humane psychoanalyst. What emerges is a friendly and convincing portrait of a man whose paramount drives are a love of people and excitement, a dislike of friction and contradiction. He is "a good but not a very wise man; vain, captious, overconfident and warmhearted; no more honest than most, but friendlier than the average; courageous but at the same time . . . not totally without a certain somewhat meretricious grandeur...
...insists on calling her Boss-Lady, 2) cannot bring herself to marry her lover (Warner Baxter) when divorce at last sets him free, 3) is attracted, to her own bewilderment, by a massively masculine cinemactor (Jon Hall). Asleep, she has spectacular dreams, complete with music. She consults a psychoanalyst (Barry Sullivan). In just four interviews he cures...
Oliver Wendell Holmes (Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table) wrote three novels which have been widely unread. They reflected the scientific interests of their author, a physician, teacher of anatomy at Harvard, dean of its Medical School. Recently a psychoanalyst made the suggestion that Holmes's novels were perhaps the most original and significant of all his works, establishing the wiry little Bostonian as the godfather of modern psychoanalysis. Holmes, he found, discovered the "unconscious" (sometimes called "subconscious") 25 years before Sigmund Freud...
...because of the mixed quality of the year's fiction, was Arthur Koestler's Arrival and Departure ($2). By no means equal to his Darkness At Noon, Koestler's latest novel was a graphic account of the sufferings of an ex-Communist for whom a sardonic psychoanalyst tries to provide an easy way out of the struggle against Fascism...