Can a Museum Convey Intellectual History? A New Exhibit on Freud Shows the Way

After emigrating to London late in his life, Sigmund Freud rejected a request to donate his papers to Hebrew University in Jerusalem, saying: "I have a probably unjustifiable antipathy to personal relics, autographs, collections of handwriting specimens, and everything that springs from these. This goes so far that I have, for example, handed all my manuscripts before 1905 into the wastebasket." Nevertheless, a

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