Final Analysis: The Making and Unmaking of a Psychoanalyst

by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

“I’m serious. I wrote that paper. You’re stealing it from me.” “Wait a minute, you must have misunderstood me, Dr. Schiffer. I haven’t even written the paper yet. It’s about Terri’s experience in the Warsaw Ghetto and my ideas about sexual assaults in childhood, and Freud’s in my view mistaken abandonment of this theory. It has nothing to do with your interests, which are, I know, quite different. I don’t even think you would like the paper; you certainly could not agree with the ideas in it that I have just told you about.” “I told you, I wrote that paper with you. Now, you can either acknowledge me as the coauthor, or…”