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Appendix The Disputed Quotations Quotations taken from Janet Malcolm, In the Freud Archives (1984; reprint, New York: New York Review Books, 1997). “Maresfield Gardens [home of the Freud Archives] would have been a center of scholarship, but it would also have been a place of sex, women, fun. It would have been like the change in The Wizard of Oz from black and white into color.”(36) “Then I met a rather attractive older graduate student, and I had an affair with her. One day, she took me to some art event, and she was sorry afterward. She said,‘Well, it’s very nice sleeping with you in your room, but you’re the kind of person who should never leave the room—you’re just a social embarrassment anywhere else, though you do fine in your own room.’ And, you know, in their way, if not in so many words, [Kurt] Eissler and Anna Freud told me the same thing. They liked me well enough ‘in my own room.’ They loved to hear from me what creeps and dolts analysts are. I was like an intellectual gigolo—you get your pleasure from him,but you don’t take him out in public.”(40–41) “That remark about the sterility of psychoanalysis was something I tacked on at the last minute, and it was totally gratuitous. I don’t know why I put it in.”(55) “[Kurt Eissler, director of the Freud Archives] was always putting moral pressure on me.‘Do you want to poison Anna Freud’s last days? Have you no heart? You’re going to kill the poor old woman.’ I said to him, ‘What have I done? You’re doing it. You’re firing me. What am I supposed to do—be grateful to you?’‘You could be silent about it.You could swallow it. I know it is painful for 225 225 you.But you could just live with it in silence.’‘Why should I do that?’‘Because it is the honorable thing to do.’ Well,he had the wrong man.”(67) “Wait till it reaches the best-seller list, and watch how the analysts will crawl,” he crowed. “They move whichever way the wind blows. They will want me back, they will say that Masson is a great scholar, a major analyst—after Freud, he’s the greatest analyst who ever lived . . . There is no possible refutation of this book. It’s going to cause a revolution in psychoanalysis. Analysis stands or falls with me now.”(153–54) 226 Appendix ...

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