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Before you shut
Scissors to cut
Shear skin deep
Underneath wool
Expose the sheep
Whose leg you pull
- "Scissors"
PARTISAN ReVIEW
Menashe finds a way to let rhythmic expectation and rhyme work on
his behalf. Spatial constriction appears to spark his inventiveness.
Indeed, the reviewer very quickly begins to feel verbose and im–
precise. I would as lief be brief: the garden is small, but the flowers
grow tall. Portion the joy lest the rhyme start to cloy. This is good
stuff; that said, enough.
SVEN BIRKERTS
THE WOLF MAN AND THE RAT MAN
CRIES OF THE WOLF MAN. By Patrick
J.
Mahony. Edited by the
Chicago Institute of Psychoanalysis. International Universities
Press. $25.00.
FREUD AND THE RAT MAN. By Patrick
J .
Mahony. With a Foreword
by Otto F. Kernberg. Yale University Press. $23.50.
Patrick Mahony, a practicing analyst, is writing a trilogy
about Freud's case histories;
Cries of the Wolf Man
and
Freud and the
Rat Man
will be followed by a book examining Dora and Freud's
other female patients. Mahony excludes Schreber and Little Hans,
since Freud treated neither of them directly.
By
now there is a con–
siderable literature about each of the five great case histories.
Mahony mentions much of it, but ignores Henri Ellenberger's
evidence (1972) which supported Carl G. Jung's contention that
Freud had told him Anna O. was a therapeutic failure.
The Wolf Man, who figures so prominently in the movie
1919,
is the most famous of Freud's cases. In his
Cries of the Wolf Man,
Mahony announced that he was using "all available source material
on the Wolf Man." He must qualify his claim by the use of the word
"available," because the sealed Freud Archives contain an enormous
