Books:Freud, Jews and Other Germans:
Andrews, Wayne
friends in the company]. He was not of battlefields of Belgium in 1915 and Findley's theme is life-human life but their county, he was not even of their 1916, his subject,...
...That is Oxford, $12.95 [289 pp.] told that he is "the Columbus of the probably true...
...And what I hate FATHER R. EMMETT CURRAN, S.J., teaches these days is the people) who weren't a Nazi factory producing cables, who history at Georgetown University...
...to Kennedy's run for the presidency...
...day another friend...
...If some of his positive that "the Jews aren't really so man who argued in 1886 that "the Jews conjectures are questionable, his argubad as many people believe...
...things over from a practical standpoint, I The seven American Catholics chosen BARBARA MUTKOSKI have the impression that I'd be quite wel- by Deedy span a variety of professions...
...Take Freud, for instance...
...Above the melee "War is waged by men," wrote Frederic Manning, "not by beasts, or by FREUD, JEWS AND OTHER GERMANS: he is writing about turn all too quickly gods...
...For example, he credits Tom awkward Jewish physician, he is taunted Europe...
...be said about The Wars, his third lem of distinguishing between German both men and reported that Freud found Nietzsche's mind "too rich to digest...
...It is also probably true that mind...
...ments are presented with logic and perdeathbed, when obliged to send for an toughest and purest race now living in suasion...
...His proposthumous novel...
...Oberstdorf to allow a dead Jew to be In the war you had to face it day buried beside his gentile wife, and she REVIEWERS after day-week after week-month knew that she did not stand alone...
...No...
...of his most colorful chapters, Deedy examine every question from the credits Cardinal William Henry O'Constandpoint of the individual concerned...
...A refugee himself, he also felt human failings does not seem to have larger human picture...
...John Deedy's book, Seven Ameri- lar, about the influence of seven people Mann on this point...
...As the ideal son-in-law for the wealthy eral charismatic personages who have in- Deedy puts it: ". . . each was significant Munich Jew Alfred Pringsheim...
...It is a peculiarly human activity...
...As Deedy states, most of chance c f being published...
...I am one of those who like to give German civilization a chance...
...the night as well has its wonders...
...breeze...
...Gay, a diligent man when it comes to But that is far from all that Mr...
...Letters c f not more than smart enough to appreciate...
...touched with the grace of God...
...So Andreas-Salome, who came to know Not Timothy Findley...
...As giants often are...
...Art Professor at Wayne State University...
...What about which he writes, the more likely he does all this mean...
...guished novelist Theodor Fontane was for his blood...
...for this he pays, that "if some Germans did not need for- occurred to Gay...
...individuals who have preceded us, indi- collection of biographical sketches...
...It is the the only good German was a dead Ger- That Freud was a human being with later novelist who sees the war as part of a man...
...alien among them...
...For some John Courtney Murray, Dorothy Day, 2 50 or 300 words naturalh• have a better reason Herr Pringsheim failed to ap- Tom Dooley...
...And when I think another has touched the lives of us all...
...While Fontane did lose spised him for his antecedents, for the thing in common...
...I've Heinrich on the eve of his marriage to had not intended...
...When they counted monstrosities his hero Robert server, and its multiform enemies...
...You should was that he was a representative of Ger- tal role, "perhaps even the instrumental put up with him," he is reminded...
...there is, for example, the horrors of the Third Reich without sacVienna suburb, death in Aberdeen is an account (pp...
...preciate The Blood of the Walsungs, a his subjects have nothing in common exCommonweal: 28...
...The trouble with Nietzsche Dooley with having played an instrumenby one of the local bigots...
...We are never informed usually, by sacrificing the "feel" of the giveness, other Germans had committed that he was scared stiff by Nietzsche...
...We are also the punishment of a crime...
...On his are without question the strongest...
...19 January 1979: 27 He will have us believe that the distin- tale by Thomas in which he was pilloried cept their religion and their nationality...
...I don't understand of combat in The Wars could document subtle men and women who survived the your sympathy," Freud wrote one of Adler's friends...
...it is reach...
...For a Jew boy out of a this assertion...
...But he is their hero...
...He also suggests that Dooley might the philosemitic side...
...The Catholics he has attempted to outline them...
...He gives Dubslav-or shall we say art of becoming un-German has always sees Alfred E. Smith's defeat in the presFontane-a glorious opportunity...
...novel, is that he gets it right, so far, culture and German civilization...
...This remark will grow out of their German habits...
...But then there is the probto...
...Then after month-year after year...
...The world really ing, and as moving, as the comparable Fort who wrote in Our Road through the rewarded him richly for his services in attack in Wilfred Owen's celebrated lyric Night that "not only the light of day but "Dulce et Decorum Est...
...Anyone who likes the Germans," that made escalated involvement in InStechlin has what he might call more or Nietzsche maintained in one of his dochina and the Vietnam war itself posless a weakness for seeing things from humorous moments, "must hope they sible...
...there and they look back and say we maintained in The Seal That Will Not Be MARK TAYLOR teaches in the English Debecame inured...
...Later on...
...The figures sor of English at Bergen College...
...the work of Frederic Manning...
...They Your reviewer, who must confess to hav- 204 pp...
...Could it be that Freud is to miss this second half of his war's I HAD come," Peter Gay...
...There is no mention unheard-of career in itself, and proof of attack that is as realistic, and as terrify- of the gentile novelist Gertrud von Le how far he had got on...
...I am a Christian, I come from a In sequence, he profiles: Alfred E. good family, and I have accomplished Smith, William Henry O'Connell, Fran- Commonweal welcomes letters on subjects something that these people may be cis Joseph Spellman, Leonard Feeney, treated in its pages...
...Deedy, The Thomas More Press, $8.95 have left their mark on our time...
...If I have misKatja Pringsheim...
...this spoke of their remote villages and ham- Ross is caught up in, and finally de- theme he has crafted into an affecting and lets, or sleepy market-towns in which stroyed by, of which the Western Front is distinguished novel-in every way a nothing happened except the church but the most public and, in that precise worthy companion, many years later, to clock chiming the hour, he felt like an form, the most widely shared...
...But to say we got used to but all of France was baptized and so WAYNE ANDREWS is Archives of American it...
...all of his charismatic subjects are of Irish remembered for the creation of Dubslav Incidentally, Gay would like to dis- descent...
...It is been appreciated by the best elements of idential campaign of 1928 as strengthentrue," comes his reply, "that Major von the German people...
...Every page seems to have forgotten that there were rebel Alfred Adler...
...She could recall the campaign his subject, but his handling of the evitrays the Canadian Army on the waged in her Bavarian village of dence at his disposal is open to question...
...This is a fact, if we may trust Lou thing, what it was like to be there...
...Durfee Prohas climbed out of his grave to protest the significance, and to see it instead as akin fessor of History at Yale, tells us, appalling reverence of this admirer...
...von Stechlin, the leading character in his miss Friedrich Nietzsche as an anti- Deedy's prose is colloquial...
...God-that makes me so angry...
...for better or for worse in some special can't really imagine that this is a Jewish Ironically, many of these personages way, and each leaves a footstep or two, home," Thomas advised his brother have affected history in ways which they however faint, on the sands of time...
...I hope that Bourne's story will become widely known again...
...Your heart froze Erased that not only the Ile-de-France partment at Manhattan College...
...His children, the author of "Except...
...In this anyway, as one can judge from reading book of essays centered on the problems Nor does Gay have a word to say about Freud's sad comment on the death of the the novels, poems, and memoirs of Man- of German Jews in modem times, he ning and his contemporaries...
...The Wars Professor Gay has no time, unfortu- BARBARA MUTKOSKI is an assistant profesnately, for such distinctions...
...he is described as "the the closer a novelist stands to the war Wayne Andrews Reluctant Columbus of the mind...
...This may not be quite fair to the files are lively and candid...
...Findley are flowers that grow only in the wilderfootnotes, has obviously read widely on has accomplished...
...The have been a secret agent for the CIA...
...over-yes...
...nell as having left the church a remarkaAnd frankly, I don't like certain indi- In brief ble legacy...
...You fluenced both the Church and America...
...ing the spirit of the Irish subculture, Stechlin has a certain philosemitic lean- It has been thirty-three years now since enabling it to survive for another thirty ing, because he can't stand un-Christian the Germans lost the Second World War...
...Every there was the case of the half-Jewish ROBERT O. JOHANN teaches in the DepartElizabeth Langgasser, forced to slave in ment tf Philosophy at Fordham University...
...The first thing far, so good...
...In one principles...
...Be- man civilization and not of German cul- role" in creating the climate of opinion sides we all know that Major von ture...
...lected letters, his memoirs, his villa in Professor Gay feels more at ease with Nassau and his summer home in Thomas Mann, whom he salutes as "a SEVEN AMERICAN CATHOLICS, by John Marblehead, O'Connell and "his type" giant of German and world literature...
...Deedy neglects to his temper one day in writing about the blood that flowed in his veins, and so mention that, with the exception of one, Jews to a friend, perhaps he should be flowed in their own...
...Along with O'Connell's colviduals...
...are part of what made Vatican II necesing read every word of Mann in the origi- How much of the political and spiritual sary...
...There contradicting psychoanalysis...
...You can't smell any- chosen have not all been "giants" in the sed some, blame it on the fact that sands thing but culture...
...This nobleman is Semite...
...139-44) of a chlorine gas rificing their ideals...
...I have no fear of great historical sense, yet "each at one point or can shift with each new stirring of the wealth," he went on...
...It is a And in a book dedicated to the Jewish viduals who may be nearly forgotten to- candid commentary, told in the vernacuquestion, why is there no word about day...
...Having religion and nationality one of those anti-Semites...
...However well he por- ness...
...Certainly he was not can Catholics, profiles the lives of sev- upon their country and their church...
...come...
...He was not of battlefields of Belgium in 1915 and Findley's theme is life-human life but their county, he was not even of their 1916, his subject, his title tells us, is not also the lives of horses and even country., or their religion, and he was the War but the Wars, the perhaps un- rabbits-its value, its would-be preonly partially of their race...
...crimes that could not be forgiven...
...to a natural disaster-if an act of God, "to understand the folly of believing that then, a gratuitous act of God...
...years, and ultimately making easier John behavior, and above all, stuffy talk about Hasn't the time come, Professor Gay...
...This is not The Buddenbrooks made plain, "de- in common, in a sense they have everyexactly the truth...
...nal, would like to add that Mann is now climate of our own time is shaped by John Deedy's book is not a scholarly and then tiresome...
...For example, this new doctor...
...Masters and Victims in Modernist Culture into solemn statues larger than life set on To call it a crime against mankind is to Peter Gay pedestals too high for human eyes to miss at least half of its significance...
Vol. 106 • January 1979 • No. 1
