Few psychoanalysts from the latter half of the twentieth century
have been as intellectually prolific, charismatic and ultimately
scandalous as Masud Khan. Clinical practice and teaching went
alongside his authoring over 60 published papers, as well as
numerous reviews, and editing significant portions of Winnicott's
literary output and that of other key luminaries within the
psychoanalytical canon. Masud Khan: the Myth and the Reality is the
first in-depth scholarly account of his life. It charts his
beginnings in the Punjab, where he submerged himself in English
literature during the turbulent decades before independence and
partition, through his psychoanalytic apprenticeship with Anna
Freud, Melanie Klein and D W Winnicott in post-war London and a
spectacular climb to international prominence, to his final years
of womanising, depression, alcoholism, and cancer. As the story of
Khan's life here unfolds, so to does consideration of his key ideas
and papers. His early work includes important discussions on the
self, its development aided by the protective shield and distortion
through cumulative trauma and perversion. Acutely aware of the
potentially dislocating impact of others, the ways in which
self-experience might be actualised, particularly through dreams
and quiet fallow states, became an important theme in Khan's
subsequent writings. These and other rich topics, including his
discussions of literature and culture, are reviewed here with their
biographical roots clarified. Masud Khan: the Myth and the Reality
pieces together Khan's poignant and shocking story using various
sources including personal letters, other archival material and
interviews with his relatives, friends and colleagues. This work,
which has taken ten years to complete, allows a glimpse of both the
historical reality and the pervasive personal and institutional
myths that envelop 'Prince Dr' Masud Khan. Some of these myths Khan
wove himself, others he was incorporated into; their aliveness
today testifying to the enduring collusive lure of phantasy and
wish fulfilment. Beyond that of its central character, the book
offers an insight into the lives of Khan's analytic contemporaries,
of the institutions they participated in and of the wider society.
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