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A triad suggests a simple structure. Not so this book whose aspirations are great and complex and whose both strength and problems lie in its ambition. Regarding strength, Triad is an intelligent history of the analogous advances in both analysis and physics inthe 20th century with concepts of kabbalah as supporting proleptic commentary. At a deeper level it is also a thoughtful search in three modes for the truth of reality. Asto problems, Triad takes on the onus of presenting and collating in 341 pages an enormous amount of assiduously researched historical data about specific analysts, physicists, and kabbalists. Fortunately, the effort is felicitous. The book works. It is a good read and a substantive although popularized apologia for the serious matters it takes up. Moreover, it truly entertains as it simultaneously advocates through a handful of subtexts. At first I found the plethora of facts and details and the large cast of characters in this book a bit of a jumble, but by the end the jumble had become the experience of a living logos that compensated happily for the meditation on unity that this book also offers. True that the book is content heavy in spite of the sound character portrayals and true also that Keve is basically a man of science (albeit a noetic one) and not a novelist, but were he a great novelist first and had he four times the pages to work in, this book would warrant review by better than the likes of me.
Triad is a historical novel. It his based on factual events but eighty per cent of the work is unrecorded dialogue added by the author. The characters are all historical figures, many of great repute, and the action moves forward through journal entries made on selected dates. The first notation is datelined New York, August 30, 1909. Freud and Jung are awaited at breakfast by Ferenczi, the chronicler, the jealous chronicler, who places chairs such that the sun will be in Jung's eyes. Just before, Ferenczi had jotted down his dream of th