 Leon Edel argued in his psychoanalytic biography that James was traumatised by the opening night uproar that greeted "Guy Domville", and that it plunged him into a prolonged depression.The successful later novels, in Edel's view, were the result of a kind of self-analysis, expressed in fiction, which partly freed him from his fears.Other biographers and scholars have not accepted this account, however; the more common view being that of F.O.