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The eleven essays which comprise this volume are organized under three headings: Psychobiography, Communication, Anthropology and Religion.
In the section on Psychobiography, Philip Weissman's 'psychoanalytic study of a historical tragedy', (the assassination of Lincoln), is a brilliant demonstration of the way in which the psychoanalyst can help the historian understand the psychological basis of a historical event. A great deal of evidence is presented to buttress the author's opinion that 'John Wilkes Booth's delusion in which he perceived and hated Lincoln as a reigning king was derived from the denial of rage against his brother Edwin'.
Saul Rosenzweig discusses the relationship between Freud and Josef Popper-Lynkeus in the light of 'the idiocultural dimension of psychotherapy'. A translation of one of Popper-Lynkeus's stories in Fantasies of a Realist is added. The material discussed is very interesting and well presented. Yet Rosenzweig's contention that Popper-Lynkeus 'went in some of his thinking beyond Freud into areas that border on the so-called neo-freudian revision' seems to be based upon a rather contrived interpretation of Popper-Lynkeus. This reviewer also wonders whether Rosenzweig's Idiocultural Coördinates of Psychotherapy can legitimately be brought into any logical or psychological connection with the work of Popper-Lynkeus.
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