In the Freud Archives

In the Freud Archives is Janet Malcolm's celebrated account of the falling-out of two unlikely friends: K. R. Eissler, the formidable director of the secretive Freud Archives, and Jeffrey Moussaief Masson, a 42-year-old wunderkind trained in Sanskrit and psychoanalysis who was, briefly, Eissler's designated successor. This deeply original work of nonfiction is written with the subtlety and insight of a Henry James novel. "From beginning to end it has the coolly accomplished excitement of a thriller." — The Sunday Times (London)