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Friendship and Fratricide, an Analysis of Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss
AuthorMeyer A. Zeligs
LanguageEnglish
PublisherViking
Publication date
1967
Pages476

Friendship and Fratricide, an Analysis of Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss is a 1967 book by psychoanalyst Meyer A. Zeligs. [1][2][3] In his work, Zelig argued that Whittaker Chambers was a psychopathic personality who had framed Alger Hiss.[4]

Background

Zeligs was a 1928 graduate of the University of Cincinnati and a 1932 graduate of its Medical School, before serving as medical officer in the US Navy during World War II.[5][6]

On August 3, 1948, Whittaker Chambers, a former U.S. Communist Party member, testified under subpoena before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) that Alger Hiss,an American government official, had secretly been a Communist while in federal service.[7]

Although Chambers refused to see Zeligs, the author did correspond with Hiss.[8][9]

Reaction

Friendship and Fratricide was widely reviewed. [10][11][12][13] In 1978, The New York Times reflected that the work "stirred controversy when it was published in 1967 with the conclusion that Whittaker Chambers was a psychopathic personality".[14][15]

Writing in the Archive of General Psychiatry, one contemporary reviewer described the book as "almost impossible to put down". [16] Another reviewer characterized the work as a novel genre in an article entitled "The Potential of Psychoanalytic Biography".[17] The Harvard Crimson opined that work "only further complicates the already hopelessly complicated questions surrounding Alger Hiss's alleged crime"[18] Time reviewed the book under the title "Slander of a Dead Man"[19] In the 1999 work "The Strange Case of Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers", the author argues that "Zeligs was addressing himself to a genuine psychological riddle in writing Friendship and Fratricide."[20]

References

  1. ^ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1967/02/23/dangerous-acquaintances-2/
  2. ^ Dilliard, Irving (1967). "The Strange Case of the Erstwhile Friends". The Virginia Quarterly Review. 43 (4): 664–672. JSTOR 26443026.
  3. ^ https://www.denverpost.com/2007/08/31/shame-on-outers-not-on-the-outed/
  4. ^ https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/friendship-and-fratricide-an-analysis-of-whittaker-chambers-and-alger-hiss-by-meyer-a-zeligs/
  5. ^ https://www.nytimes.com/1978/03/22/archives/dr-meyer-zeligs-psychoanalyst-wrote-book-defending-alger-hiss.html
  6. ^ https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1963/03/30/comment-4855
  7. ^ https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/kent-csi/vol44no5/html/v44i5a01p.htm
  8. ^ https://www.nytimes.com/1978/03/22/archives/dr-meyer-zeligs-psychoanalyst-wrote-book-defending-alger-hiss.html
  9. ^ https://www.nytimes.com/1976/04/25/archives/alger-hiss.html
  10. ^ https://www.pep-web.org/document.php?id=PAQ.037.0448A
  11. ^ Roazen, Paul (1987). "Psychoanalytic Biography". Contemporary Psychoanalysis. 23 (4): 577–592. doi:10.1080/00107530.1987.10746205.
  12. ^ https://search.proquest.com/openview/bb65b0d4bd5553d3cde09829c3e1603f/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=1816616
  13. ^ https://insights.ovid.com/psyccritiques/psycc/1968/04/000/psychobiography-trap/8/01258377
  14. ^ https://www.nytimes.com/1978/03/22/archives/dr-meyer-zeligs-psychoanalyst-wrote-book-defending-alger-hiss.html
  15. ^ https://home.isi.org/ongoing-campaign-alger-hiss-sins-father
  16. ^ https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/article-abstract/489337
  17. ^ Bychowski, Gustav (1969). "The Potential of Psychoanalytic Biography: Zeligs on Chambers and Hiss". American Imago. 26 (3): 233–241. JSTOR 26302596.
  18. ^ https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1967/3/4/the-strange-case-grows-stranger-pbibt/
  19. ^ http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,840867,00.html
  20. ^ https://search.proquest.com/openview/60976211dada9bf89a1b0e887cbbb1ea/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=1820946

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