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In The Freud Archives

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Janet Malcolm probes the contentious battle over Sigmund Freud's legacy, revealing a drama of seduction, betrayal, love, hatred, and the blurred lines between fantasy and reality. The story centres on figures like K. R. Eissler, the devoted psychoanalyst protector of Freud's name; Jeffrey Mason, an outspoken critic; and Peter Swales, a persevering researcher. Each claims to hold the definitive truth about Freud, yet must rely on one another amid clashing ambitions and fractured friendships.
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Ideal for readers interested in psychology, biography, and the complex dynamics behind historical legacies. Those fascinated by intellectual rivalries and the human stories behind scholarly disputes will find this compelling.

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Janet Malcolm's gripping investigation into the personalities who clash over Freud's legacy endeavours to untangle the causes of their rivalry and soured friendships, while the flaws and mysteries of Freud's early work tower in the background.

Janet Malcolm's gripping investigation into the personalities who clash over Freud's legacy endeavours to untangle the causes of their rivalry and soured friendships, while the flaws and mysteries of Freud's early work tower in the background.

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Who will inherit the secrets of Sigmund Freud? Who will protect his reputation? Who may destroy it?

In The Freud Archives is Janet Malcolm's investigation into the personalities who clash over Freud's legacy. This has become a celebrated story of seduction and betrayal, love and hatred, fantasy and reality. It is both a comedy and a tragedy.

Malcolm's cast of characters includes K. R. Eissler, a venerable psychoanalyst and keeper of the Freud flame; Jeffrey Mason, a flamboyant Sanskrit scholar and virulent anti-Freudian; and Peter Swales, a former assistant to the Rolling Stones and indefatigable researcher. Each of them thinks they know the truth about Freud, and each needs the help of the other.

Malcolm endeavours to untangle the causes of their rivalry and soured friendships, while the flaws and mysteries of Freud's early work tower in the background.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781783784554

Publisher: Granta Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 04 January 2018

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Granta Books

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 11.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 140g

Pages: 192

About the Author

Janet Malcolm's books include Reading Chekhov, The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, The Journalist and the Murderer and Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession. Born in Prague, she grew up in New York, where she now lives.

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