![]() ![]() Nor had he been misquoted, but it took a decade and two trials to see the case off. He trusted her he thought he’d found a sympathetic listener. The psychoanalyst Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson told her about his many achievements, his sex life included, and then sued her for defamation when he discovered what her New Yorker reporting (republished in 1984 as In the Freud Archives) had made of him, claiming he’d been misquoted. Most of us like to talk about ourselves, and given the faintest encouragement will say enough to wind up looking like fools when our words appear on the page. Janet Malcolm made her reputation writing about people who didn’t know when to shut up. ![]()
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