Because Sigmund Freud invented psychoanalysis, there was no old couchman around to analyze him and get him started on the right trackso he analyzed himself. Now Erich Fromm, one of the most eminent of today's analysts, who differs with Freud on many vital issues, has subjected the founder to a searching analysis from the outside. It is not the first such effort, but the best. In Sigmund Freud's Mission, (Harper; $3), German-born Author Fromm casts grave doubt on Biographer Ernest Jones's description of Freud's self-analysis as "an imperishable feat" (TIME, Sept. 19, 1955), which got most of the kinks out of...
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