Fiction and the Unconscious Author:Simon O. Lesser In Fiction and the Unconscious, Simon Lesser has written the most intelligent full length study I have seen of the psychological hold of all forms of storytelling on the mind of man. Too often such attempts to apply a theory of psychology to the 'esthetic' process end up in some shrill, one-sided , all-inclusive doctrine, a tour... more » de force of ingenuity and irrelevance. But Mr. Lesser ,who has the singular advantage of training as well as sophistication in the fields of both literature and psychology, has actually added to our literary insight while probing the psychological depths of our response to fiction. " - William Phillips, in the New York Times« less