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...libel cases have dragged on longer or sullied both sides more than the suit by Freudian psychoanalyst Jeffrey Masson against Janet Malcolm of the New Yorker, who pilloried him in a 1983 profile, that was finally brought before a jury last week. Masson, a scholar of Sanskrit who holds a Ph.D. from Harvard, contends that since the article was published he has been all but unemployable. No longer a therapist, he has written books including the critically acclaimed memoir My Father's Guru and recently taught media ethics at the University of Michigan, where he has been living...
...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 to cooperate with Malcolm, a defender of traditional Freudian analysis and thus an ideological opposite. When he read the resulting piece, Masson said, "I realized I had been totally betrayed." Malcolm retorts that he betrayed himself...
Tommy is a fairy tale with heavy Freudian overtones. The narrative centers on spells and enchantments, ordeals and rescues, in a life verging on the gothic. The thematic concerns are more universal: growing up, facing down everyday demons, coming to terms with the past. In the current plot (there have been several variations over the years), the central character is a boy of four when his long-missing father returns home from a German POW camp. The father, presumed dead, finds his wife in the embrace of another man, quarrels with him and shoots him. The frantic parents instruct their...
...cause for remorse. "My dad used to brag to his friends. All the dads did. When we brought home girls they liked, they'd say, 'Cool,' and tell their buddies," he said. "It's all the moms that are freaking out about this stuff. But that's probably that Freudian thing. You know, penis envy...
...FREUDIAN COOL...