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Turns Out Susan Sontag’s Actual First Book Was The One Her Husband Put His Name On And Made His Career With

WORDS Posted: May 15, 2019 6:03 am

A new biography by Benjamin Moser argues, citing previously unreleased correspondence as well as textual analysis, that Philip Rieff’s Freud: The Mind of the Moralist, which launched his academic career, was actually written (or rewritten) by Sontag, who had married Rieff when she was 17 — and that she relinquished rights to the book as part of her divorce settlement in order to avoid a custody fight over her son. – The Guardian

WORDS Published: 05.13.19

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