Tragedy
Psychoanalyst De Bronte's unethical psychological cures include love affairs with his female patients whereby he exploits their weaknesses to destroy them. He sees in Fearon, an Englishwoman, a criminal tendency toward fraud, and turns her into a thief. He takes another woman, Jeannine, to North Africa to discover the reasons for her guilt over her mother's death, and she recalls that at the age of six she had inadvertently caused her mother's capture by Arabs because of her unconscious sexual attraction to her father. Completely unprepared by the psychoanalyst for this shock, Jeannine commits suicide, and Fearon, who has been taught by De Bronte to take what she wishes, forces him to marry her.