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Psychoanalysis and detective work are often compared, but their common themes are not clarified. The detective novel as a genre developed at about the same time as psychoanalysis. Marie Bonaparte quoted a remark of Freud's that equated the detective's efforts with infantile searches for sexual knowledge. As we look at the detective's methods, we note than in all classical detective stories the detective constructs or reproduces for himself imaginary scenes out of the details of the scene of the crime, applying his own practical experience, until a believable, connected scenario has been formed. Lorenzer illustrates this in Poe, especially in his "Murders in the Rue Morgue." Analyst and detective are similar in their ability to go beyond the expected, the ordinary, and the logical in order to deal with the strange and bizarre. The psychoanalyst's efforts at interpretation are directed toward the uncustomary levels of meaning beneath consciousness. Poe's detective, Dupin, is able to go beyond the police prefect, who concentrates on the logical and whose main virtue is persistence. Dupin depends on his experience, on his feelings and senses. The resolution of such riddles is found, in Poe, not in the logically expected, but in the unusual and irrational, and arrived at by intuition and experience. A happy combination of verbal understanding and sense experience wins out, but not if they are widely separated and pursued independently. Since Poe, this approach has become standard. Writers often contrast the plausible reconstruction of the crime by the police with the special intuition and insight of the hero-detective who stands outside the police procedures and finds meaning in the facts deeper than the official police interpretation; the detective's method resembles the analyst's emphasis on the unconscious.