Focus: Freudian Slippage — April/May 1996

Freudian Slippage

Volume 17 Number 4
April-May 1996

FOCUS: FREUDIAN SLIPPAGE

THIS DISEASE CALLED MAN
Dr. Jonathan Cohen reviews The Memory Wars: Freud’s Legacy in Dispute by Frederick Crews

BEYOND REPRESSION
A RESPONSE TO JONATHAN COHEN by Frederick Crews

FEATURE: LIFE STORIES

LITERARY SPINACH/LITERARY PLEASURE
Bette Ann Moskowitz reviews The Diaries of Dawn Powell, 1931-1965, and My Home is Far Away by Dawn Powell

NO IDEAS BUT IN THINGS
John Tytell reviews Remembering William Carlos Williams by James Laughlin

THE DANCE OF ASTONISHMENT
Suzanne K. Walther reviews Massine: A Biography by Vincente García-Márquez

ART IN THE MARKET
Robert L. McLaughlin reviews Firebrand: The Life of Horace Liveright by Tom Dardis

WHAT HAPPENED?
Joe Napora reviews We Have a Little Sister, Marguerite: The Midwest Years by John Sanford

YOUNG MARX CARBUNCULAR
Eric Mendelsohn reviews A Requiem for Karl Marx by Frank E. Manuel

COME UP AND SEE ME SOMETIME
Kelly Mayhew reviews When I’m Bad, I’m Better: Mae West, Sex, and American Entertainment by Marybeth Hamilton

AM AMERICAN IN PARIS
Leon Lewis reviews Henry Miller: The Paris Years by Brassaï

FEATURE: HOT LICKS

YAKETY YAK
Andrew Essex reviews The Dustbin of History by Greil Marcus

REFORMULATING JAZZ
Norman Spencer reviews Jazz Among the Discourses, edited by Krin Gabbard; Representing Jazz, edited by Krin Gabbard; and Sounding Off, edited by Ron Sakolsky and Fred Wei-Han Ho

BLUES BEAT
Barry Wallenstein reviews Book of Blues by Jack Kerouac

FEATURE: DREAM VISIONS

BEAUIFULLY CAPTURED
Lynne Diamond-Nigh reviews La Belle Captive by Alain Robbe-Grillet and René Magritte; translated by Ben Stoltzfus

ABSTRACT SURREALISM
William S. Wilson reviews Surrealism in Exile and the Beginning of the New York School by Martica Swain

VISIONARY REVISIONING
Paul Pines reviews Lost Paradise: Symbolist Europe

BOOK REVIEWS

CONFINED IN LIMBO
Teri Reynolds reviews Collected Novellas: Collected Early Fiction, 1949-1964 by Arno Schmidt; translated by John E. Woods

COMPASSIONATE HAWK
Charles Marowitz reviews The Collected Works of Harold Clurman: Six Decades of Commentary on Theatre, Dance, Music, Film, Arts and Letters, edited by Margorie Loggia and Glen Young

MIND’S SHIFTING GEOGRAPHIES
W. B. Keckler reviews State of Mind by Martha Ronk

CHOICELESS CHOICES
Susan Osborn reviews Admitting the Holocaust: Collected Essays by Lawrence Langler

FAMILY VALUES
Kingsley Widmer reviews Lying In Bed: A Novel by J.D. Landis

THE HAZARDS OF RESTRAINT
Carolyn Peyser reviews The Bottomland by Harry Humes

MISTRESS OF SORROWS
Paul Oppenheimer reviews Songs in Flight: The Collected Poems of Ingeborg Bachmann, translated and introduced by Peter Filkins

THE RISING OF THE SERPENT
Jim Feast reviews Serpent of Fire: A Modern View of Kundalini by Darrel Irving

WHOSE MELVILLE IS IT?
William Lansing Brown reviews The Errant Art of Moby Dick: The Canon, the Cold War, and the Struggle for American Studies by William V. Spanos; and Pierre, or the Ambiguities by Herman Melville

IRONY AND/OR AUTHENTICITY
Tyrus Miller reviews A .38 Special and a Broken Heart by Jonis Agee; and I Survived Caracas Traffic: Stories from the Me Decade by Richard Grayson.

PEEPAWS OF PROVIDENCE
Forrest Gander reviews The Locality Principle by Keith Waldrop

DREAM PROSE
Ted Rooney reviews Inside and Out of Byzantium by Nina Zivancevic

WINGLESS FLIGHT
Rachel Gupta reviews Internal Strategies by Anita Feng

THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN (MIS)NAMED “OTHER”
Lynda Koolish reviews Written by Herself: Literary Production by African American Women, 1746-1892 by Frances Smith Foster

NECESSARY FICTIONS
William Greenway reviews Scrimmage of Appetite by Jon Davis

IMPRISONED SELF
Judy Michaels reviews Heart Work by Sharon Dolin

REIMAGINING AN UNDEAD PAST
Edward Butscher reviews Through All the Displacements by Edgar Gabriel Silex; and Dark and Perfect Angels by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

HISTORY’S ORPHANS
Patrick Pritchett reviews What a Strange Way of Being Dead by Jack Collom

PERGRINATIONS
Thomas J. Harford reviews The Stone Cutter’s Hand by Richard Tillinghast

CROSSING NAMES OFF THE ROLODEX
Martin Schecter reviews The Way We Write Now: Short Stories from the AIDS Crisis, edited by Sharon Oard Warner

LOST IN THE WOODS
Carmine G. Simmons reviews The Forest by Susan Stewart