If Handke is constantly probing the limits of form, it may well be because he so thoroughly rejects another kind of inquiry. When the journalists Mladen Gladic and Jan C. Behmann asked Handke what he thought about psychology in an interview last year, he replied that he thought it was, “an amusing game, like the horoscope.” The comment is only the latest in a long line of disparaging comments that Handke has made about psychology in general, and psychoanalysis in particular. Freud, one feels, would more likely have been intrigued than offended. How can Handke not see that his comment, since retracted, that the “Serbs were bigger victims than the Jews,” can only be true if it is meant psychobiographically?