{"product_id":"in-the-freud-archives-1","title":"In the Freud Archives","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn the Freud Archives\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e tells the story of an unlikely encounter among three men: K. R. Eissler, the venerable doyen of psychoanalysis; Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, a flamboyant, restless forty-two-year-old Sanskrit scholar turned psychoanalyst turned virulent anti-Freudian; and Peter Swales, a mischievous thirty-five-year-old former assistant to the Rolling Stones and self-taught Freud scholar. At the center of their Oedipal drama are the Sigmund Freud Archives--founded, headed, and jealously guarded by Eissler--whose sealed treasure gleams and beckons to the community of Freud scholarship as if it were the Rhine gold.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJanet Malcolm's fascinating book first appeared some twenty years ago, when it was immediately recognized as a rare and remarkable work of nonfiction. A story of infatuation and disappointment, betrayal and revenge, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn the Freud Archives\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is essentially a comedy. But the powerful presence of Freud himself and the harsh bracing air of his ideas about unconscious life hover over the narrative and give it a tragic dimension.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003cbr\u003ePublished: 2002\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003ePages: 200\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003eISBN 10: 159017027X\u003cbr\u003eISBN 13: 9781590170274\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Janet Malcolm","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53584987685130,"sku":null,"price":20.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/6066\/3399\/files\/9781590170274.jpg?v=1787913419","url":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareandsons.com\/products\/in-the-freud-archives-1","provider":"Shakespeare \u0026 Sons Buchhandel GmbH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}