{"product_id":"9781590170274","title":"In the Freud Archives (New York Review Books Classics)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIncludes an afterword by the author\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn the Freud Archives\u003c\/i\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\/p\u003e\u003cp\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, \u003ci\u003eIn the Freud Archives\u003c\/i\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\/p\u003e","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47055783526640,"sku":"9781590170274","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781590170274_p0.jpg?v=1763802567","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781590170274","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}