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MENTAL HEALERS ? Stefan Zweig ? Viking...
More scientific, more sympathetic to Author Zweig is Sigmund Freud, whose pyscho-analysis makes "comprehensible . . . the voices that exhort us or allure us behind our waking words and our waking consciousness and to whose bidding we generally pay more heed than to that of our recognized will." Freud got his first real start in Paris under the famed Charcot who cured hysterical paralysis by hypnotic suggestion. Thereafter Freud made a systematic study of the subconscious, discovered the truth of the Chinese proverb: "What is pent up in the deepest recesses of the heart, sneezes itself...
...dream." More doctor than priest. Freud has founded no churches; his hope ful cures are based on an essentially hopeless philosophy. Of his teaching Author Zweig concludes: "Freud has done marvels, but there remain other marvels still to do. Now that his art of interpretation has revealed to the mind its hidden bonds, we await others who will once more disclose to it its own freedom, showing it how to stream out of its own confines into the universe...
...Author, Born in Vienna in 1881, of rich Jewish parents, Stefan Zweig until the World War was more of a traveler than an author. His first popular work was an anti-War play, Jeremiah, produced in Switzerland to avoid German and Austrian censorship. He now writes to carry out a conscious literary program. Other translated works: Paul Verlaine, Emile Verhaeren, Romain Rolland, Passion and Pain, Invisible Collection, Conflicts, Adepts in Self-Portraiture, Joseph Fouché, Amok...
...another production of the same author, has been presented in this country as a grand opera, but never as a drama. "The Chaulk Circle" is an oriental fantasy which has enjoyed great success in Germany under Max Reinhardt. And finally there is a play by the German author Stefan Zweig "Jeremiah...