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Masson's book. The Assault on Truth is based largely on careful documentation of Freud's theoretical evolution, which he says challenges the foundations of the analytic community. But the debate over how he got these documents is a matter of controversy that has often overshadowed the book itself...
...university decided to settle the matter by dissolving the department. Still in Toronto, however, Masson became involved in psychoanalysis, and in a relatively short time managed to climb to some of the highest peaks of the profession. He became close friends with Kurt Eissler, the director of the Sigmund Freud Archives, a vast repository of Freudiana and the bastion of Freudian orthodoxy...
...this without receiving a degree in psychoanalysis, but he had graduated from a training institute, and delivered several papers at conventions. He became the heir-apparent to the director-ship of the Freud Archives, even gained permission to go through a cupboard of previously unrevealed Freud letters. At the Archives, Masson unearthed what he believed was significant new documentation that Freud abandoned his seduction theory for intellectually dishonest reasons. Masson delivered a speech on his beliefs, and like a prodigal son was tossed out of the Archives and Eissler's life for attacking the master...
What little actual plot there is carries the family from New Hampshire where Win had given up teaching to start The Hotel New Hampshire, to Vienna where he and the children and his old friend confusingly named Freud start the second Hotel New Hampshire Permanent guests in this home lodge include terrorists, one of whom, Miss Carriage, played by Amanda Plummer, has a very peculiar accent, another who bears a suspicious resemblance to the prep school youth who raped Fanny, Susie the bear--Kinski dressed in a potbelly bear suit (why the sultry Kinski hides in such a suit...
...only one. Taylor as the Queen is an equal match to Isaacs riveting performance. Where Isaacs slinks, Taylor jiggles. He fusses shrilly over Kitty Litter and conquers his hostility towards men with an alacrity that would have made Freud proud. Some where in the process, his lesson to Kitty on the Facts of Life and how to with stand them brings down the house...