In the Floyd Archives: A Psycho-Bestiary

by Sarah Boxer

Sarah Boxer’s charming first book is a series of cartoon case histories, an animal tour of all things Freudian. The tale begins when Mr. Bunnyman runs into Dr. Floyd’s office to hide from a wolf that is chasing him, and Floyd, a classic pipe-smoking analyst, insists that Bunnyman’s problem is psychological—that he is not actually being chased but is having paranoid fantasies. Enter Dr. Floyd’s next patient, Mr. Wolfman, a swaggering cross-dresser with a hysterical female alter ego called Lambskin (who soon insists on being treated by Floyd, too). Ratma’am rounds out the Floydian client she’s an obsessive-compulsive pack rat who likes giving orders and being spanked.

Drawn with a whimsical hand and complete with notes about the Freudian sources to which these archives pay affectionate tribute, the adventures of these animals reveal both the unintended comedy of Freud’s case histories and their psychic depths.

Genres: Graphic Novels, Fiction

160 pages, Paperback

First published July 24, 2001

Reviews

[♪ · Rating 2 out of 5]

A fluffy Freudian farce that is, in the typically Harvardian fashion, so bloated with obscure references that it loses all semblance of meaning.

[Audrey · Rating 5 out of 5]

this so far a very funny book to me but it is a little weird in the beginning but you get use to it!i liked it a lot! my mom says that i should read more regular book ya'know the books theat have more words than pictures or no pictures but i can't help it i love to read manga and graphic novels like this one!!!!



BIG RECOMMENDATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[talyahbasit · Rating 3 out of 5]

One gets the sense that it is not so much a "tribute" to Freud than a sly, slightly derisive take on some of his most famous cases.

[Courtney Dantzler · Rating 2 out of 5]

a cute book for the freud enthusiast. i understood only about half of the obscure references to his work, but other than that, it was an enjoyable book.

[Frederick Bingham · Rating 1 out of 5]

An adult cartoon book. It did not interest me.