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But we need not feel too ashamed of this distinction; after all, the sexual life of adult women is a dark continent for psychology.  \nSigmund Freud (1932)  \nThe Dark Continent is neither dark nor unexplorable. It is still unexplored only because we have been made to believe that it was too dark to be explored. Because they want to make us believe that what interests us is the white continent, with its monuments to Lack.  \nHélène Cixous (1996)  \n‘You’ll have to be less critical of Freud!’‘Oh?’  \nOn first hearing the comment, ‘You’ll have to be less critical of Freud,’ I was more than a year into postretirement postgraduate study, previously having worked as a psychologist and academic, retired into writing and, craving collaboration, returned to the academy to undertake a second PhD. The department to which I applied turned out not to be a good fit (Jones, 2014), and I sought refuge in a related discipline. The admonition,‘You’ll have to be less critical of Freud,’ comprised the bulk of the supervisory content of the first meeting proper with my new supervisor. I’ll call her Sue.  \nDid I detect a note of fear in Sue’s voice, or am I reading too much into things, two years on? After all, how things stand now is . . . not well. Both Sue and my co-supervisor were recently sacked and a supervisor who adopted me was sent home on stress leave. Don’t get me wrong; I make no claims of correlation (let alone causation) among any of these events.Yes, I write mildly annoying opinion  \npieces, but for my trouble I am merely smudged, not blacklisted.  \nThe present article is the fourth in an unintended series charting my experiences of academic censure via social exclusion. Or ‘amicable exclusion,’ as the Vietnamese reprint has it (Jones, 2012, 2013, 2014) . Here, in talking about academic censure, I touch on former psychoanalyst Jeffrey Masson’s (1990) excoriation by the psychoanalytic establishment for, among other things, criticising latetwentieth-century Freudian anti-feminism.  \nAs a former insider, Masson is famous for his warts-andfull-names exposé of the kind of psychoanalytic sexism that would turn women’s stomachs and, more to the point, turn them away from psychoanalysis per se. Masson turned to writing about animals: ‘I’d written a whole series of books about psychiatry, and nobody bought them. Nobody liked them. Nobody. Psychiatrists hated them.’ In contrast, Dogs Never Lie about Love reportedly sold a million plus.  \nBut I digress.  \n‘You’ll have to be less critical of Freud,’ was the first of many proscriptions about my doctoral work:  \n‘You can’t refer to Masson; his criticism of Freud has been discredited.’  \n‘But I’m citing his translation of the Freud/Fliess correspondence.’  \n‘But can we take it seriously? Did he . . . ?’  \nAlthough Sue did not know (nor should she) of the Masson (1985) translation (authorised by the Freud Archive), she did know that Masson’s name was not to darken any dissertation emanating from her department.  \n66 Monument to lack: The new university Andee Jones vol. 57, no. 1, 2015  \nA U S T R A L I A N U N I V E R S I T I E S ’ R E V I E W  \nMasson’s was not the only verboten bibliographic entry; another was that of nonconformist commentator, Adam Phillips. And as to the not-exactly-verboten but not-verynice-either: ‘Our advice,’ said Sue,‘is to omit Nussbaum’s critique of Butler. . . . Nussbaum is not a patch on Butler!’  \nFurthermore, from the academic symposium:‘Your work sounds exclusionary to me.’‘In what way, do you think?’  \n‘You say your conceptual position is feminist and secular.That means you’re excluding religious feminism.’  \n‘Surely,’ I wanted to say, ‘surely, scholars know the difference between setting limits and policing borders.’Was my interlocutor just point-scoring in the obligatory zero-sum game? 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