The Right to Misquote

Himmelfarb, Gertrude. "The Right to Misquote." Commentary Magazine. April, 1991.

Excerpt:

It is not often that the Supreme Court is presented with a case in which the evidence consists of such titillating remarks, allegedly made by the plaintiff, as his likening himself to “an intellectual gigolo,” desiring to convert Anna Freud’s house, the repository of the Freud Archives, into “a place of sex, women, fun,” and anticipating being acclaimed “the greatest analyst who ever lived”—after Freud, to be sure.

 

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