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A podcast reading its way through the NYRB Classics, a series that resurrects fiction and nonfiction works worth remembering.
Elise Riley, an accessioning archivist at the Beinecke Library, offers us an expert's perspective on In The Freud Archives, Janet Malcolm's nonfictional exploration of archival infighting. The book concerns three psychoanalytic scholars who come to epistolary blows over the scattered remains of Freud's legacy. But unlike most niche academic debates, this one resulted in a $13 million dollar lawsuit. In this episode, we discuss Malcolm's narrative distance, the role of fantasy versus reality, and some things the Sigmund Freud Archives could have done to avoid all this Oedipal drama.
For more on archives and obsession, join our Patreon to hear next week's episode on Henry James' The Aspern Papers.
Unburied Books
A podcast reading its way through the NYRB Classics, a series that resurrects fiction and nonfiction works worth remembering.
