Frustrated Regent

Vienna, home of music and schnitzeln, is also the home of psychoanalysis. Dr. Sigmund Freud, lives there. So does Dr. Alfred Adler. Switzerland's Charles Gustave Jung pays frequent visits. The corridors of the special Psychological Clinics teem with their satellites.

Ever since slack-chinned Prince Nicholas of Rumania became a chronic reckless driver (TIME, Nov. 4, 1929, et seq.), he has been a favorite subject for speculative diagnosis with the Viennese psychiatrists, who gather nightly to drink coffee with whipped cream at the Cafe Siller on the Franz Josef Quai. Many and ingenious have been the explanations of why H. R. H. groin-kicked the driver of a taxi with which he had collided (TIME, Dec. 30). First Viennese psychiatrist to issue his ideas to the press was Dr. Erwin Wexburg.

"Prince Nicholas," said Psychiatrist Wexburg last week, "is the victim of a frustrated longing for power. It was not until his brother Carol's dramatic renunciation of the throne [TIME, Jan. 11, 1926 et seq.] that Nicholas began showing signs of nervous irascibility. His brother's lapse opened the door to power, but of limited power only. Before, Nicholas was a minor prince; now he is a member of the Regency Council, a great step forward; but when Carol's son King Mihai comes of age Nicholas will be completely eclipsed. The sudden feeling of limited power has upset his balance."

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