The plot is arbitrary, yet another story of crime in series with ritual murders that hurry to forget. The interest of this novel lies in Freud's portrait of the couple Jung, canned investigation into the murders in question. We are in 1909, just before the break that rend the psychoanalytic movement and author who has documented Freud gives us a fairly credible, ambitious, humanistic, confident about the meaning and purpose of his discoveries. The image he gives of Jung is perhaps more questionable, it implicitly endorses the thesis of a fascinated Jung as the esoteric and which have served to discredit the Freudians Jungian psychology. But the tension that develops between the two men just before the break, blood tinged with mutual respect, mutual annoyance of power plays well and showcases how clever the rationalism of Freud. The character of Grace Korda whose analysis by Freud is the engine of the investigation is reminiscent of Gabrielle Leggett Hammett in The Dain Curse , its fragility and pugnacity are moving the Viennese physician and will jeopardize his theory cons-transfer.
Leaving aside the megalomaniac aspect of the plot - perhaps one of the shortcomings of the French thriller - the novel is a Almost success that lends itself to film adaptation, a Brian De Palma would draw wonders.
Luc Bossi Manhattan Freud, paperback, 2011.
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