SOURCE: "From Shrink to Stretch," in The New York Times, November 26, 1975, p. 27.

Broyard was an American critic, essayist, memoirist, stort story writer, and educator whose works include Aroused by Books (1974) and Kafka Was the Rage (1993). In the following mixed review of The Unconscious God, he focuses on Frankl's call for the "rehumanization" of psychotherapy.

While our behavior goes from bad to worse, our psychological image keeps getting better. At the turn of the century, when Western man was still a relatively orderly creature, Freud saw him as a hotbed of lust and aggression. Now, Viktor Frankl suggests that man's primary motive is the search for meaning in his life. Within man, says the author, "there is a repressed angel."

According to the American Journal of Psychiatry, Viktor Frankl has contributed "perhaps the most significant thinking since Freud and Adler." An earlier book, Man's Search for Meaning, sold 1.5 million...