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38-740: It was at the center of a complicated scandal, described in Janet Malcolm 's book In the Freud Archives and also covered by Jeffrey Masson in his book Final Analysis. The Archives were founded by Kurt R. Eissler in 1951, together with a group of people who knew Freud personally, including Heinz Hartmann , Ernst Kris , Bertram Lewin and Hermann Nunberg . It was directed by Eissler for decades after its founding. Eissler prevented many well-meaning scholars from seeing many Freud documents claiming confidentiality, even when their donors had not requested nor demanded that confidentiality, nor

76-563: A change, with her contempt for the contemporary age’s lily-livered female psyche..." Roiphe responded to some of her critics in an essay in Slate including Gawker . In 2012, Roiphe published the essay collection In Praise of Messy Lives . In The New York Times , critic Dwight Garner praised the book, writing, "I’ve begun recommending it to people, particularly to would-be writers, explaining that Ms. Roiphe’s are how you want your essays to sound: lean and literate, not unlike Orwell’s, with

114-610: A classic, routinely assigned to journalism students. It ranks ninety-seventh in The Modern Library 's list of the twentieth century's "100 Best Works of Nonfiction". Douglas McCollum wrote in the Columbia Journalism Review , "In the decade after Malcolm's essay appeared, her once controversial theory became received wisdom." In the posthumously published Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory, Malcolm writes autobiographical sketches, starting

152-471: A column on home decor. She next wrote about photography for the magazine. She moved to reporting in 1978, which Malcolm attributed to her smoking cessation in a 2011 profile by Katie Roiphe : "She began to do the dense, idiosyncratic writing she is now known for when she quit smoking in 1978: she couldn't write without cigarettes, so she began reporting a long New Yorker fact piece, on family therapy, called 'The One-Way Mirror.'" Her preference for writing in

190-412: A dependable introduction to analytic theory and technique. It has the rare advantage over more solemn texts of being funny as well as informative". In his 1981 New York Times review, Joseph Edelson wrote that Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession "is an artful book", praising Malcolm’s "keen eye for the surfaces — clothing, speech and furniture — that express character and social role" (noting she

228-542: A frightening ratio of velocity to torque.... Among Ms. Roiphe’s gifts is one for brevity. She lingers long enough to make her points, and no longer. If I could condense my opinion of her new book onto a T-shirt, that Beefy-T would read: 'Team Roiphe.'" In January 2018, Twitter users spread the information that Roiphe planned to name the creator of the anonymous Shitty Media Men list, a private spreadsheet that later became public. The creator, Moira Donegan, outed herself preemptively in an essay for The Cut magazine. Roiphe

266-467: A misplaced notebook containing three of the disputed quotes, swearing "an affidavit under penalty of perjury that the notes were genuine." "Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible." Janet Malcolm, 1990 Malcolm's 1990 book The Journalist and the Murderer begins with the thesis: "Every journalist who

304-491: A novel based on the life of Lewis Carroll and his relationship with the real Alice, called Still She Haunts Me , which was published in 2001. In 2007, Roiphe published Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Portraits of Married Life in London Literary Circles 1910-1939 . Donna Seaman, in the trade publication Booklist , gave the book a starred review, writing, "Roiphe, inspired aesthetically and philosophically by

342-662: A son, and has defended being a single mother. In her first book, The Morning After , Roiphe argues that in many instances of supposed campus date rape , women are responsible for their actions. "One of the questions used to define rape was: 'Have you had sexual intercourse when you didn't want to because a man gave you alcohol or drugs?' The phrasing raises the issue of agency. Why aren't college women responsible for their own intake of alcohol or drugs? A man may give her drugs, but she herself decides to take them. If we assume that women are not all helpless and naive, then they should be responsible for their choice to drink or take drugs. If

380-468: A woman's 'judgment is impaired' and she has sex, it isn't always the man's fault; it isn't necessarily always rape." In the review for The New York Times , Christopher Lehmann-Haupt praised the book, calling it a "Book of the Times" and stating, "It is courageous of Ms. Roiphe to speak out against the herd ideas that campus life typically encourages." Writing for The New Yorker , Katha Pollitt gave

418-400: Is "in many ways the feminist dream incarnate, the opportunity made flesh, the words we whisper to little girls: 'You can be president. You can do anything you want.'" Reviewing the book for The New York Times , Michiko Kakutani noted that some of Roiphe's observations were in "stark contrast" to what Kakutani considered some of the "antifeminist" pieces in the collection. She has also written

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456-638: Is an imagining of the relationship between Charles Dodgson (known as Lewis Carroll ) and Alice Liddell , the real-life model for Dodgson's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland . She is also known for allegedly planning to name the creator of the Shitty Media Men list in an article for Harper's Magazine . Roiphe grew up in New York City , daughter of psychoanalyst Herman Roiphe and noted feminist Anne (née Roth) Roiphe . She attended

494-447: Is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible." Her example was the popular nonfiction writer Joe McGinniss . While researching his true crime book Fatal Vision , McGinniss lived with the defense team of doctor Jeffrey MacDonald while MacDonald was on trial for the murders of his two daughters and pregnant wife. In Malcolm’s reporting, McGinniss quickly arrived at

532-485: The 1950s and 1960s and served as a theater critic. They had a daughter, Anne, in 1963. Donald Malcolm died in 1975. Malcolm's second husband was long-time New Yorker editor Gardner Botsford , a member of the family that had originally funded The New Yorker . The author of A Life of Privilege, Mostly: A Memoir , Botsford died at age 87 in September 2004. On June 16, 2021, Janet Malcolm died of lung cancer at

570-424: The I of the writing and the I of your life is like Superman and Clark Kent .'" She turned this interest in the construction of narrative to a variety of subjects, including two books about couples ( Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas , and poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes ), one on Anton Chekhov , and the true crime genre, and particularly returned repeatedly to the subject of psychoanalysis . Malcolm

608-619: The Ninth Circuit in San Francisco agreed with a lower court in dismissing a libel lawsuit that Masson had filed against Malcolm, The New Yorker and Alfred A. Knopf . Malcolm claimed that Masson had called himself an "intellectual gigolo ". She also claimed that he said he wanted to turn the Freud estate into a haven of "sex, women, and fun" and claimed that he was, "after Freud , the greatest analyst that ever lived." Malcolm

646-498: The actor Kevin Spacey , as well as a similarly homophobic faux profile of the singer Michael Stipe . Katie Roiphe summarized the tension between these polarized views, writing in 2011, "Malcolm's work, then, occupies that strange glittering territory between controversy and the establishment: she is both a grande dame of journalism, and still, somehow, its enfant terrible." Charles Finch wrote in 2023 "it seems safe to say that

684-578: The age of 86 at a Manhattan hospital. Katie Roiphe Katie Roiphe (born July 13, 1968) is an American author and journalist. She is best known as the author of the non-fiction book The Morning After: Sex, Fear, and Feminism on Campus (1993). She is also the author of Last Night in Paradise: Sex and Morals at the Century's End (1997), and the 2007 study of writers and marriage, Uncommon Arrangements . Her 2001 novel Still She Haunts Me

722-548: The all-female Brearley School , received an AB from Harvard University / Radcliffe College in 1990, and received a PhD in English Literature from Princeton University in 1995. In 2001, Roiphe married attorney Harry Chernoff in a Jewish ceremony in Amagansett , New York . They had one daughter, Violet; they separated in 2005 (the year Roiphe's father died), and later divorced. She subsequently had

760-467: The book a negative review, calling it "a careless and irresponsible performance, poorly argued and full of misrepresentations, slapdash research, and gossip." Pollitt's review was in turn criticized by Christina Hoff Sommers in Who Stole Feminism? (1994). The Morning After received a positive response from Camille Paglia , who called it "an eloquent, thoughtful, finely argued book that

798-586: The book's dust jacket, "the narrative of an unlikely, tragic/comic encounter among three men." They were psychoanalyst Kurt R. Eissler , psychoanalyst Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson , and independent Freud scholar Peter J. Swales . The book triggered a legal challenge by Masson, the former project director for the Sigmund Freud Archives . In his 1984 lawsuit, Masson claimed that Malcolm had libeled him by fabricating quotations she attributed to him. In August 1989, United States Court of Appeals for

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836-763: The chapters from family photographs. Malcolm's penchant for controversial subjects and tendency to insert her views into the narrative brought her both admirers and critics. "Leaning heavily on the techniques of psychoanalysis, she probes not only actions and reactions but motivations and intent; she pursues literary analysis like a crime drama and courtroom battles like novels," wrote Cara Parks in The New Republic in April 2013. Parks praised Malcolm's "intensely intellectual style" as well as her "sharpness and creativity." In Esquire , Tom Junod characterized Malcolm as "a self-hater whose work has managed to speak for

874-581: The conclusion that MacDonald was guilty, but feigned belief in his innocence to gain MacDonald’s trust and access to the story—ultimately being sued by MacDonald over the deception. Malcolm's book created a sensation when in March 1989 it appeared in two parts in The New Yorker magazine. Roundly criticized upon first publication, the book is still controversial, although it has come to be regarded as

912-469: The emerging psychoanalytic method. Masson said that "Freud began a trend away from the real world that, it seems to me, has come to a dead halt in the present-day sterility of psychoanalysis throughout the world." Eissler was deeply shocked ("Just today Masud Khan called me from London and asked me to dismiss you from the Archives. The board members, all of them, or at least most of them, are asking for

950-413: The first person was influenced by New Yorker colleague Joseph Mitchell , and she developed an interest in the construction of the auctorial subject as much as the objects it described, quickly realizing "this 'I' was a character, just like the other characters. It's a construct. And it's not the person who you are. There's a bit of you in it. But it's a creation. Somewhere I wrote, 'the distinction between

988-556: The same."), and Masson was subsequently dismissed from his job at the Archives, whereupon followed bilateral legal action and a well-publicized scandal. Harold P. Blum succeeded Masson and Eissler as Executive Director. He was again succeeded by Louis Rose, who is the current director as of 2023. The other current officers are Jennifer Stuart as President, Nellie L. Thompson as Secretary, and W. Craig Tomlinson as Treasurer. Research Janet Malcolm Janet Clara Malcolm (born Jana Klara Wienerová ; July 8, 1934 – June 16, 2021)

1026-470: The self-hatred (not to mention the class issues) of a profession that has designs on being 'one of the professions' but never will be." Junod found her to be devoid of "journalistic sympathy" and observed: "Very few journalists are more animated by malice than Janet Malcolm.” Junod himself, however, has been criticized for a number of journalistic duplicities, including a smirking piece in Esquire which outed

1064-481: The two most important long-form journalists this country produced in the second half of the last century were Joan Didion and Janet Malcolm." Malcolm met her first husband, Donald Malcolm , at the University of Michigan. After graduation, they moved to Washington, D.C., where Malcolm occasionally reviewed books for The New Republic before returning to New York. Donald reviewed books for The New Yorker in

1102-537: The writings and lives of these social and artistic pioneers, offers sophisticated psychological, sexual, and social analysis, fashioning uncommonly affecting portraits of uncommon men and women." In The New York Times , the editor and critic Tina Brown called it "the perfect bedside book for an age like our own, when everything is known and nothing is understood." In The New York Observer , Alexandra Jacobs conceded "Katie haters will be sorry to hear that it’s very absorbing. The author has done something constructive, for

1140-488: Was an American writer, staff journalist at The New Yorker magazine, and collagist who fled antisemitic persecution in Nazi-occupied Prague. She was the author of Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession (1981), In the Freud Archives (1984), and The Journalist and the Murderer (1990). Malcolm wrote frequently about psychoanalysis and explored the relationship between journalist and subject. She

1178-434: Was anyone a potential victim of the revelation of those documents. By the 1980s, Eissler, with the help of Anna Freud , had expanded the collection to include thousands of items. Eissler was introduced to Masson in 1974. Masson was appointed secretary, and Eissler intended for Masson to succeed him as director, which he did in 1980. Being an officer of the Archives, Masson had administrative access to all its documents, and he

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1216-636: Was educated at the High School of Music and Art , and then at the University of Michigan , where she wrote for the campus newspaper, The Michigan Daily , and the humor magazine, The Gargoyle , later editing The Gargoyle . Malcolm was a literary nonfiction writer known for her prose style and her examination of the relationship between journalist and subject. She began working at The New Yorker in 1963 with women's interest assignments, writing about holiday shopping and children's books, as well as

1254-640: Was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2001. Her papers are held at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University , which acquired her archive in 2013. In 1981, Malcolm published a book on the modern psychoanalytic profession, following a psychoanalyst she gave the pseudonym “Aaron Green”. Freud scholar Peter Gay wrote that Malcolm's "witty and wicked Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession has been praised by psychoanalysts (with justice) as

1292-648: Was known for her prose style and for polarizing criticism of her profession, especially in her most contentious work, The Journalist and the Murderer, which has become a staple of journalism-school curricula. Malcolm was born in Prague in 1934, one of two daughters (the other is the author Marie Winn ), of Hanna (née Taussig) and Josef Wiener (aka Joseph A. Winn), a psychiatrist. She resided in New York City after her Jewish family emigrated from Czechoslovakia in 1939, fleeing Nazi persecution of Jews . Malcolm

1330-528: Was savaged from coast to coast by shallow, dishonest feminist book reviewers". Roiphe's second book was 1997's Last Night in Paradise: Sex and Morals at the Century's End . She also began to contribute reviews and essays to Vogue , Harper's , Slate , The Washington Post , and The New York Times . In 2008, she published an essay featured in the anthology Thirty Ways of Looking at Hillary: Reflections by Women Writers. In her essay, entitled "Elect Sister Frigidaire", Roiphe writes that Hillary Clinton

1368-637: Was then the photography critic for The New Yorker ). It succeeds because she has instructed herself so carefully in the technical literature. Above all, it succeeds because she has been able to engage Aaron Green in a simulacrum of the psychoanalytic encounter — he confessing to her, she (I suspect) to him, the two of them joined in an intricate minuet of revelation." The book was a 1982 National Book Award for Nonfiction finalist. Articles Malcolm published in The New Yorker and in her subsequent book In The Freud Archives (1984) offered, according to

1406-416: Was therefore allowed to see anything he wanted breaking the seal whenever necessary. In 1981, Masson published a paper wherein he claimed that Freud's abandonment of his seduction theory had taken place for reasons not related to the scientific merit of the theory, namely that Freud believed that granting the truth of his female patients' claims that they had been sexually abused would risk the reputation of

1444-569: Was unable to produce all the disputed material on tape. The case was partially adjudicated before the Supreme Court , which held that the case could go forward for trial by jury. After a decade of proceedings, a jury finally decided in Malcolm's favor on November 2, 1994 on the grounds that, whether or not the quotations were genuine, more evidence would be needed to rule against Malcolm. In August 1995, Malcolm claimed to have discovered

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