Books: Seek, Seek, Seek

HARRY, THE RAT WITH WOMEN by Jules Feiffer. 181 pages. McGraw-Hill. $3.95.

As a sketch-and-word man, Jules (Sick, Sick, Sick) Feiffer trades heavily in the guilt-edged insecurities of modern America. Meaning well and putting their trust in Freud, Feiffer's cartoon characters are forever trying to find themselves and at the same time break through to others. "Do I really love her," Feiffer youths keep asking themselves, "or is she just a fertility symbol?" "Is it passion that makes me kiss him," their girls muse, "or am I just acting out an anti-male hostility...

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