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Perhaps previous ages suffered from a lack of self-examination. The Age of Oprah does not. One of the defining features of modernity is self- consciousness: psychological self-consciousness as popularized by Freud; historical self-consciousness as introduced by Hegel and Marx; literary self- consciousness as practiced in the interior, self-referential, self-absorbed world of modern fiction...
...Freud asked the wrong question. Instead of agonizing over what women want, he would have found it more productive to ask "What do men, those mysterious, beguiling, ultimately unknowable creatures, want...
...Freud should have asked, "What do men, those mysterious, beguiling, ultimately unknowable creatures, want...
...PRESS: Freud, Fun and Fraud...
Masson's troubles began well before Malcolm's scathing portrait. After a meteoric rise in psychoanalytic circles, he was sacked from his heir apparency at the Freud Archives in 1981 for disparaging the private behavior of the founder of psychoanalysis and for attempting to debunk some of the master's key thinking on the prevalence and significance of child abuse -- an act of iconoclasm that Malcolm aptly termed self-destructive. Masson sued the Archives for $13 million and accepted a settlement of $150,000. Then he made another decision that in retrospect seems even more self-destructive: he agreed...