Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 November 1947 — Page 8

THE FIRST READER ...By Harry Hansen 3 New, Books Put Freud, His Theories on Behavior On Dissecting Table

"DOCTOR FREUD." By Emil Ludwig. New York, Hellman, Williams, $3. “EREUD: HIS LIFE AND HIS MIND." By Helen Walker Puner. New|

York, Howell, Soskin, $4.

“THE WORLD WITHIN." Stories collected by Mary Louise Aswell.| New. York, Whittlesey House, $3.75. = Sigmund Freud, the Austrian psychologist who made, it possible for everybody to talk glibly: about the inferiority | complex and wish fulfillment, and who called dreams the symbols of dark, suppressed desires, is on the dissecting | table today. One book attacks him violently. Another turns | the spotlight of psychoanalysis upon him. A third pays unconscious tribute to him| = Ea The,

by presenting and analyzing |second blamed the environment for | that tired feeling. In either case]

| hles of neuroses| notable examples HL Shr Toe.

in fiction.

Preud’s enemy is Emil Ludwig | : jan: i | ' . who-goes after him with a meal would seem harsher if some modern) of Indianapolis to the Italian Room of Ball State Teachers’ College, Muncie. It has |; Gidow has added what was in-

mportant exhibit of Italian Renaissance [dicated by his notes. H. Allen Smith's New Book

ax in “Doctor Freud." Mr. Lud- | psychoanalysts had nor sald subwig seems to have taken offense stantially the same Hing, Follow-} at Freud's interpetation of Leon-|ers of Jung and Adler have refused 2 ardo da Ninel, Goethe, Napo-to accept in full the sex theories Ca / Vv » f . * * leon, Bismarck and other Ludo- of ;Freud. I4°3s Interesting to see Hi f B h d T | M | d , months ago and was surprised to n eln 0 umor SS S vician heroes. He calls him a cor-/that Helen Walker Puner, in IS ory, Iograp y an rave Ing Ing e ally dl "LO, THE FORMER EGYPTIAN." By H. All ys New York * : ory. ' . . en omith. New Yor In Interesting New Book on Hoosierland modeled on Chars T. Yerkes, wilh Doubleday, $2. ro only slight variations. There are H. Allen Smith fans will need no recomm ’ . . endation of , of so much ancient real echoes of the Yerkes career in “The| Former Egyptian.” "10,108 Indianapolis looks far less Stoic,” with mention of Cowper-| The new book is in the vein of Mr. Smith's earlier ‘humorous

rupter of youth, an inventor of “Freud: ‘His Life and His Mind.” alibis for weak wills and a falsifier. also tries to mitigate Freud's exHe says Freud knew only the treme ideas, declaring sonie of his alling, the abnormal and the de- | labels

art opening tomofrow,’

structive in mankind. American] plex, which means parricide, are York Knopf $4 50

welcome of his theories signifies & unfortunate, Yet in her explana-|

decadence similar to that of ancient tion she proves anew how faithful]

Rome, Freud's judicial interpreter

writes

extreme

and Michelangelo's Moses reflected

his own inner experiences. ” J

” “NOT DIRECTLY BEARING on

is acted like a dictator and tolerated Helen Walker Puner, formerly anno contradictions. editor of Fortune Magazine, who! a well-rounded and sympa- dream meant something shocking, thetic biography In “Freud: His was he really right? Mrs. Puner Life and His Mind.” Mrs. Puner admits that there is no way of acpepts most,:but not. all, of Freud's| proving it, for it is not based on| theories; her principal statistical or experimental evidence | contribution is an analysis of- how|but related only in the doctor's con-|the Freud was torn between being a fessional. Jew and trying not to be one, and) Mrs. Puner's book, highly read-| conception of the state as a bucolic! how his theories about Leonardo able and admirably presenting the place inhabited by pleasant, simple, chief facts of Freud's career, ends neighborly folk, contains a g by psychoanalyzing Freud him- deal of mythology.” No true be-| self. Mrs. Puner cannot accept lever likes to have his articles of “his myopic view of women and faith described as myth. And

“Indiana: An Interpretation.”

If — Freud declared that your

laendisch” or foreign viewpoint.

Freud's life, but most rewarding marriage” as wholly uninfluenced by though the Indiana myth is no reading in this subject, Is “The experience. In the same way, while more fantastic than many phases

world Within,” an anthology of 15 the accepts the principal points of of the gre: stories “illuminating the neuroses Freud's far-fetched of our time” collected by Mary

Louise Aswell, fiction editor

Harper's Bazaar. These stories ate made the subject of sane and valu-| able comment by Dr. Frederic Wer- own Edipus complex. Mr, Ludwig with an adm

vincing ghost stories ever written,” ou N° she thinks it discloses Freud's] MR. MARTIN STARTS his book

| been loaned to Herron Art Museum for the i

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= ONE TOO MANY— i. Dreiser's Last |= ~~ - {Book Not Up To Standard

en me STOIC." A novel. By Ts YN ore Dreiser, New York! pny Doubleday, $3. : 7 Few authors know when to stop writing, and even their best friends| AS \ don't know when to stop printing \ them, Take the case of Theodore Dreis- \ er. His great influence for natural \ ism ‘and antf-puritanism ‘developed in the first 25 years of this century. In his middle years he wrote a heavy, documented style, leaning on newspaper reports and personal observation. Younger . writers brought selection into their stories of American life; Dreiser, save in a few short stories, lumbered heavily on. When he died in 1945 he had| _ outlived his period. Yet his books continue to come, and today “The Stoic” is presented as the third of a trilogy telling the story of the predatory street railway

wood, of which the first two were

IN HERRON EXHIBIT — This marble bust of St. John, by Andrea Sansovino, |“The Financier and “The Titan~| (Fried, to have reacted fo one of H. Allen Smith's books i vie MR, LUDWIGS defment| early |6th-Century Florentine sculptor, is a gift from the late William H. Thompson [Dreiser had almost completed the Egyptian!” THvSRiig cl ina. Grawing for Lo, the Former

story the day before he died, and

, such as the Edipus com- "|NDIANA: AN INTERPRETATION." By John Bartlow Martin. New| survival

An “Auslaender,” however favorably disposed towards the crossroads state, 1s apt to agree too" readily with some of Mr, Martin's criticisms | and to remain relatively insensitive to some of his words of praise. And] {1 should judge that a good many Hoosiers reading Mr. Martin's book

{will accuse him of having an “aus-| {and Powers Hapgood, D. C. 8te- nesses have been started in recent|

phenson, Court Asher, Ned Gorell of Winamac and “Ralph F. Gates: Grass-Roots Governor.”

In his final chapter, “Straws in| Hoosier Wind,” Mr. Martin| | writes: “This: Indiana idea, this|

At two points in thé state's his-

tory, Hoosiers had golden dreams of the future, Mr. Martin believes. {The 1890's and the early 1020s | 441, sa were periods of optimism, of belief | ¥s, lin progress and expansion. What has happened to the dreams?

4" "ALL OF US KNOW that a favor-

auto manufacturers.

ater American myth, of ite topic of local conversation coninterpretation | Which it 1s a part, such a descrip-| cerns the chance Indianapolis once

metropolitan than many smaller| Wood's Sonation ot fhe Sheet valor wise ,.| cities because of a thrifty habit of (0 t niversity of Chicago and| Freud was to his theories, He One should be & genuine Hoosier to review John Bartlow Martin S| putting 1947 facades on 1877 build- his ornate lace and art gallery in

|ings, instead of tearing down the New York.

re’s been a tendency for old, with his ward, Berenice, this time, {established firms to come under out-|but his thoughts are still on his Where capital is ex-|second wife, Aileen. When he visits| tive territory in Illinois. Sensively ig stagnation is apt Paris and sees the tomb of Heloise | to result, and you have, as Mr. Mar- and Abelard he decides to have|loyalty, he takes a number such remarks as the col- Aileen buried beside him. When cracks at Hoosiers. His list of to bilaine Dh Drepagin oi. | lege graduate’s: “Indiana is a good finally he dies and is buried—full diana literary celebrities, each vinced of its plausibilit o | place to be from.” That recalls the details in “The Stoic’—Aileen is im- > unfortunate crack attributed to pressed anew with her husband's

” I REREAD “THE TITAN” a few

phrase in a newspaper clipping re-| .

old and erecting modern structures| Frank. Cowperwood’'s predatory ferring to Author Smith as a THERE'S A GEN as an investment.

methods lose force in “The Stoic,” |“former Egyptian” prompted him

Fa and. he begins to wonder whether ty take a trip home and see ff B Len Smith that makes’ even FEW IMPORTANT new busi-|NAPIng up money and power is things were still the same. his most flagrant double-entendres seem funny rather than coarse. He {years in the state, Mr. Martin says,, COWPERWOOD IS DALLYING that trip is a digressive travelog has a wonderful ear for absurd Ye which takes in parts of Ohio and marks seriously made, a wonderful Indiana as well as Mr Smith's na- eye for ridiculous behavior.

C And he’s such a good reporter With an’ “Egyptian’s” mock-fierce that even when you know he's

{worth while. 8.8 8 "uw THE LITERARY PRODUCT of

large doses.

S. A

tham, psychiatrist on the staff of ridicules it as completely unfounded the State Fair of 1946. The device panied by a fear of greatness. You House.” And if Mr. Martin's pic- Century. Some of it is uncon-| " & several New York hospitals and and unproved. is inigenious. It gives him a chance gather from Mr. Martin's comments| ture of Indiana's present and its Sciously amusing, as when a 2(0- For Your Gift-ed Male author, | 8.0 8 to discuss typical personalities, in-/that he believes Hoosiers get timid | probable immediate future seems Year-old dancer visits Cowperwood * Emil Ludwig directs his most| IT 18 QUITE .true that many terests and attitudes of Hoosiers. and’ conservative when they reach somewhat gloomy, he is not singling|in his hotel and introduces herself BACK HOME

bitter invective against Mr. Freud's

f sexual repression, wg ® ken that a Edipus|® Mrs. Puner shows, some merely survey.

responded to the currents of our) time. Yet, whatever Freud's faults, {he lifted a veil and the dark will {never be quite as black again. -

mocks the

complex exists in every man, | denies that sexuality underlies all) neuroses and wants to know why beaiity, love and health should be considered abnormal, He says there is no scientific proof of the most extreme of Freud's conclu-| sions; they are mere declarations, drawn out of patients by the arts

of suggestion.

| American authors have been affect-

Aswell's | Within,” with Dr. Frederick Werth- | |am’s original comment, recognizes

stories as art before studying them APPRECIATES HOOSIER— *

{as science. Also Dr. Wertham has

He ‘mingles history, biography

significant conversation collected in

r I am glad to see that Mary Louise Muncie, Kokomo, Evansville, Terre

ttacking the spread of psy- no sympathy for the “great vul- B k N t Attacking y ‘band- | Barization adorned with technical roo S oO es

choanalysis by a horde of wagon climbers”

a bill.” ” » »

Mr. Ludwig se ys: freudian cliches,” in iiovels and on “The same starts with the. gain. stage and screen, ing of the patient's confidence, | continues through the famed & close similarity to the emotional Freudian ‘transference, a kind. of state In a neurosis,” writes Dr. guished literary historian, includes amorousness or love, and ends with] Wertham; “it is want in the face a sympathetic appreciation of James of plenty. False ideals are instilled Whitcomb Riley in his latest book, in people: For men to produce and “The Times of Melville and Whit- |

“The social crisis of our time has

PURITAN AMERICAN, which, sell, for women to reproduce and man” (Dutton, $5). according tor Mr. Ludwig, practices buy. Against this propaganda psy- A lengthy paragraph from Mr.

a double morality “In the use of ichiatry and literature uphold the Brooks' discussion of the great

words, and has “a passion for dignity of the individual in a Hoosier poet deserves quotation: transferring every secret into sta- changing world. Both proclaim that “Caring really for poetry only—he tistics,” enjoys using Freudian words the opposite of morbid is not a rigid rarely talked about anything else— to discuss questionable conduct, and norm, but growth.” he recalled the ‘summertime of

some women, after finding out what |

Although Mrs. Aswell has in- youth’ and the chums at school,

they mean, are willing to try them cluded stories by such moderns as strawberry time, the magic days

out.

(Conrad Alken, E. B. White, Edita when the frost was on the pumpkin, But, says he, “unused sex ,im-| Morris, Robert M. Coates, Eudora the fireplace with the crane swung pulses are natural, normal; satiety Welty and William Faulkner, who out, the old mulberry tree. Studying brings real dissatisfactions.” This have grown up in an age of his Hoosier dialect with care—the is to counter the Freud argument psychoanalysis, it is Henry James ‘country cousin’ of literary speech—<| that suppression accounts for all who - ‘gets the superlative award to be closer to the inner character neurotics. Mr. Ludwig argues that from Dr. Wertham. If “The Beast of the people he spoke for, he was a

what Freud calls suppression 18 in the Jungle,” that tale of the favorite reader always at old setreally the restraint that distin “nafheless dread” he says: “The tlers’ - meetings, where he vividly guishes the civilized man from the term neurosis, which is often used evoked the ways of the pioneers.

barbarian.

indiscriminately, does-not have so | Freud, says Mr. Ludwig, WAS & precise a meaning as one would conjuring up the well-sweep by the|

“stiff-necked prophet who made think. But to the extent that it loghouse, the spot where the tavern

sovereign deductions from his 0oWn does mean something definite. “The useé& to stand, gloomy childhood,” who knew Beast in the Jungle’ is the best in the good old days, the sociable neither music, art, play and humor story ever written about the subject. stove in the country store and the or the healing grace of love, 1¢ is the neurosis in pure culture.” [year when the grist-mill was erected Iriendship and Jaith. "His patients] — — —— were creatures of renunciationd: rather than affirmation. In short,| says Mr. Ludwig, his legacy is an “ SJunnnecessary headache, brought on by viewing the world through dis-

torted glasses. ’

Mr. Ludwig might have pointed out that both Sigmund Freud and Karl Marx provided alibis for weaklings. The first put the blame for confused life on subconscious

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