Books: On to Phrenology

A CHILD'S GUIDE TO FREUD by Louise Armstrong. Drawings by Whitney Darrow Jr. 60 pages. Simon & Schuster. $2.95. -

Freudian expertise has long since reached down through the cocktail party into the children's playroom, but there are still enough happy, balanced, unsavvy five-year-olds around to justify this narrative lexicon of Freudian terms.

It gives kids a working familiarity with the Grandma Moses of the modern mind. For adults, it's a hundred laughs, the sort of cartoon book to read while you're coming back from insulin shock.

"This is Daddy. He sleeps in the same room as Mommy. Call this a Meaningful Relationship," says...

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