Books: Two Against Freud

IN DEFENSE OF LOVE—GertY.Gontard —Alliance ($2.50).

THE SUCCESSFUL ERROR—Rudolf Allers

—Sheed & Ward ($3).

The field of psycho-investigation opened by Sigmund Freud has been plowed, tramped, and camped on. In spite of picnickers with ants in their pants and farmers with bees in their bonnets, the field has produced some good grain, along with many a tare. Last week the field was entered by two authors who analyze the work of Freud by widely differing methods but reach the same conclusion: that psychoanalysis is an overrated science.

Definitely a picnicker in Freud's field,...