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Books received are acknowledged and given a brief description in this section. Selections serving a variety of interests will be made from these for a more extensive review, as far as space will allow.
. The Muse At Length, A Psychoanalytical Study of the Odyssey. [Boston: The Christopher Publishing House, Pp. 159-1953. $2.75.]
This little volume applying the theories of psychoanalysis to the deep meanings of the Odyssey and the Oedipus and Agamemnon plays created out of it is interestingly written and scholarly in approach and style. The reader must have a broad background of knowledge of these classics and an open mind if he is to enjoy this type of handling of ancient productions.
On the whole, the book is a masterpiece of mental activity in the realm of speculation and analogy and constitutes an example of conceptual psychology, that has been popular for some time in the analysis of works of art. Another analyst could and probably would interpret the whole story in a different set of symbolic combinations. Such classics as the Odyssey lend themselves to several interpretations but the present one is withal entertaining and instructive.
. Lehrbuch Der Analytischen Psychotherapie. [Stuttgart: Georg Thieme Verlag, 1951. Pp. 340. DM 27.]
This textbook offers a liberal discussion of the field of analytical psychotherapy. The introduction points out the differences in the systems and procedures of Freud, Jung and Adler and presents the so-called “body-mind” problem in terms of integration.
In dealing with the theory of the neurosis the author describes the life impulses, instincts and experiences, the various physiological zones for fixations, the life objectives and the several types of frustrations. The structure of the personality involved in neurotic manifestations is described in terms of schizoid, depressive, obsessional, hysterical and neurasthenic types, and various forms of neurotic symptoms, expressions and progressi