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This is a prospectus for a projected larger work for which the author seeks a publisher. It is the latest of a long series of his writings. In this he attempts to explain the psychology of sex censors by the use of freudian concepts. He cites interesting parallels between the attitudes of witch hunters and of sex censors. He stresses the psychology of the 'split personality' which to him seems to cover the attempted solution of inner conflicts through reversals and projection. Over and over he hammers at the point that obscenity exists only in the mind of the reader or viewer. He raises the legal point that the law nowhere can define obscenity (since it does not objectively exist) and on this basis he questions the constitutionality of censorship.
The book is adequately written. It is completely one sided in its argument. The author impugns the unconscious motivations of all who disagree with him in his thesis. Judges, ministers, politicians, educators, mental hygiene leaders, all feel the sting of his invective. He gives short shrift to the possibility of any realistic difference of opinion.
There can be little question as to the validity of many of his statements. Despite this his conclusions are open to serious doubts. The