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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...
...Masson began his academic career at Harvard with a bang, and a behavior pattern soon emerged. He persuaded the University to let him skip freshman year, moved into Adams House and then right back out because they would not allow him women visitors over night. "I never took well to rules and regulations either at that level or at an intellectual level," he says...
Even at 19 Masson seemed to have the ability to charm the authorities and at the same time rebel against them--an ability that served him well when he moved into the psychoanalytic field. But at Harvard, both as an undergraduate and as a graduate student, he studied Sanskrit...
...particularly young 19-year-old when I came to Harvard." Masson says, "It was a very difficult time for me. I felt lonely and ignored, which I was for a long time, and I never really oriented myself in Cambridge. I always felt like a stranger, an outsider, unacceptable. I remember I would sometimes wander the streets around Christmas time, looking in and seeing all those colorful lights inside houses and feeling totally left out," he says...
After receiving his PhD. from Harvard in 1971, Masson accepted a position in the University of Toronto's Sanskrit Department. But when Masson became embroiled in a conflict with the department head, the incoming president of the 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...