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Dear Sir:
I am shocked and distressed and concerned for psychoanalysis to read in the review of K. R. Eissler's Talent and Genius ( J. Am. Acad. Psychoanal. Dyn. Psychiatr. 2 (1): 75-76) the attack by so good a man as Dr. Salzman upon so good a man as Paul Roazen.
I have been in correspondence with Paul Roazen and acquainted with his writings since they began nearly ten years ago while he was in the graduate school of Political Science at Harvard, and I know his writings to be of the highest scholastic standards, based upon thoroughly researched, sound data, well and correctly interpreting Freud to a wide audience and defending and championing Freud's work and Freud as a man. (See Freud: Political and Social Thought, by Paul Roazen, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1968.)
Yet in this review, Paul Roazen is publicly accused of a “bitter and mischievous” attack on Freud and of searching “for weapons and diatribes to abuse [Freud] for his inadequacies.” This is the opposite of the personality training, outlook and publications of Paul Roazen, who—as I have known him—is a staunch supporter of Freud and one of the finest Freud scholars in the country.