His degrees were in Sanskrit and Indian Studies. Brunton and his influence on the Masson family form the subject of Masson's autobiographical book My Father's Guru: A Journey Through Spirituality and Disillusion. While at Harvard, Masson became disillusioned with Brunton. Jeffrey and his sister Linda followed in 1959.Īt Brunton's urging, Masson went to Harvard University to study Sanskrit. In 1956, Diana and Jacques Masson moved to Uruguay because Brunton believed that a third world war was imminent. During the 1940s and 1950s, Brunton often lived with them, eventually designating Masson as his heir apparent. Masson's mother later became a follower of mystic and philosopher John Levy. Both of his parents were followers of the guru Paul Brunton. Jeffrey Masson is the son of Jacques Masson, a Frenchman of Bukharian Jewish ancestry, and Diana (Dina) Zeiger from an Ashkenazi strict Orthodox Jewish family. Masson is a veganism advocate and has written about animal rights. In his The Assault on Truth (1984), Masson argues that Freud may have abandoned his seduction theory because he feared that granting the truth of his female patients' claims (that they had been sexually abused) would hinder the acceptance of his psychoanalytic methods. Masson is best known for his conclusions about Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis. Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (born Maas Jeffrey Lloyd Masson) is an American author. Appearing in 1989 on the British TV discussion programme After Dark
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