Friendship and Fratricide explained

Friendship and Fratricide, an Analysis of Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss
Author:Meyer A. Zeligs
Language:English
Pub Date:1967
Pages:476
Publisher:Viking

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, Zeligs 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 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.[5] [8]

Reaction

Friendship and Fratricide was widely reviewed.[9] [10] [11] 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".[5] [12]

Writing in the Archive of General Psychiatry, one contemporary reviewer described the book as "almost impossible to put down".[13] Another reviewer characterized the work as a novel genre in an article entitled "The Potential of Psychoanalytic Biography".[14] The Harvard Crimson opined that work "only further complicates the already hopelessly complicated questions surrounding Alger Hiss's alleged crime"[15] Time reviewed the book under the title "Slander of a Dead Man"[16] In the 1999 work "The Strange Case of Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers", the author argues that "Zeligs wasaddressing himself to a genuine psychological riddle in writing Friendship and Fratricide."

Notes and References

  1. Dangerous Acquaintances. Meyer. Schapiro. 23 February 1967. 19 March 2019. The New York Review of Books.
  2. 26443026. The Strange Case of the Erstwhile Friends. The Virginia Quarterly Review. 43. 4. 664–672. Dilliard. Irving. 1967.
  3. Web site: Shame on outers, not on the outed. Bob Ewegen . 31 August 2007. Denverpost.com. 19 March 2019.
  4. Web site: Friendship and Fratricide: An Analysis of Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss, by Meyer A. Zeligs. Walter. Goodman. 19 March 2019.
  5. Web site: Dr. Meyer Zeligs, Psychoanalyst, Wrote Book Defending Alger Hiss. 22 March 1978. 19 March 2019. Nytimes.com.
  6. Web site: Comment. A. J.. Liebling. 23 March 1963. 19 March 2019. Newyorker.com.
  7. Web site: The Alger Hiss Case — Central Intelligence Agency. Cia.gov. 19 March 2019. 20 May 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190520032949/https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/kent-csi/vol44no5/html/v44i5a01p.htm. dead.
  8. Web site: Alger Hiss. Robert. Sherrill. 25 April 1976. 19 March 2019. Nytimes.com.
  9. Friendship and Fratricide. An Analysis of Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss: By Meyer A. Zeligs, M. D. New York: The Viking Press, Inc. 476 pp.. B. C.. Meyer. 19 March 1968. Psychoanal Q.. 37. 448–452. 19 March 2019.
  10. 10.1080/00107530.1987.10746205. Psychoanalytic Biography. Contemporary Psychoanalysis. 23. 4. 577–592. 1987. Roazen. Paul.
  11. The psychobiography Trap. R.. Story. 1 April 1968. PsycCRITIQUES. 13. 4. 10.1037/0010137.
  12. Web site: The Ongoing Campaign of Alger Hiss: The Sins of the Father. 8 October 2014. Intercollegiate Studies Institute: Educating for Liberty. 19 March 2019.
  13. Friendship and Fratricide: An Analysis of Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss.. Roy R.. Grinker. 1 April 1967. Archives of General Psychiatry. 16. 4. 512–514. 19 March 2019. 10.1001/archpsyc.1967.01730220124017.
  14. 26302596. The Potential of Psychoanalytic Biography: Zeligs on Chambers and Hiss. American Imago. 26. 3. 233–241. Bychowski. Gustav. 1969. 4907588.
  15. Web site: The Strange Case Grows Stranger. The Harvard Crimson. www.thecrimson.com. 19 March 2019.
  16. Books: Slander of a Dead Man. 10 February 1967. 19 March 2019. Time.

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