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Jed Rubenfeld is the author of the international bestseller The Interpretation of Murder. He is a professor at Yale University Law School and is one of the country's foremost experts on constitutional law. He wrote his undergraduate thesis at Princeton University on Sigmund Freud. He lives in Connecticut with his family.
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What inspired you to write a book with Freud as a main character?
I'd say the
biggest turning point for me was the phenomenal success of my last non-fiction
book, Revolution by Judiciary, which was published last summer and which sold,
I think, six copies -- four of them to members of my immediate family. When
you've conquered a field that completely, there's really not much left for you
to do, and you naturally start thinking about trying something new.
Seriously, it was all my wife's idea. She was the one who said I should write
a novel, and she was even the one who suggested using my knowledge of Freud in
it. Then I remembered something I had known about for years but hadn't focused
on a for a long time: the real-life mystery surrounding Freud's one and only
visit to America in 1909. Freud came to the United States to deliver lectures at
Clark University. The trip was a tremendous success. His lectures were attended
by famous figures such as William James. He was portrayed glowingly in
newspapers. And psychoanalysis took off in the United States. But despite all
this, Freud never returned to America and later spoke of his trip here as if it
had scarred him. He called Americans "savages&...
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