A comic look at psychoanalysis and Freudian case histories through cartoons dealing with animals and their problems.
Sarah Boxers 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. Floyds office to hide from a wolf that is chasing him, and Floyd, a classic pipe-smoking analyst, insists that Bunnymans problem is psychologicalthat he is not actually being chased but is having paranoid fantasies. Enter Dr. Floyds 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). Ratmaam rounds out the Floydian client list: shes 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 Freuds case histories and their psychic depths.
