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Speak of me as I am, nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice
Masud Khan requested that this book be written In complying Judith Cooper, Khan's analysand, has taken her title from the last act of Othello and her epigraph from the next line: “Nor set down aught in malice.” The book is a study of a symptom for which the malady is perversion and the patient's chief complaint is alienation; the sufferer was Khan, and Cooper becomes his companion as she tries, on behalf of that very gifted yet troubled man, posthumously to redress his alienation from the psychoanalytic community Clearly this is an ambitious project, yet Judy Cooper's encapsulation is quite successful, albeit in a particular way.
Speak of Me As I Am is in a sense the last chapter in a life of significant contributions to psychoanalytic thought Khan's contribution could be seen as a collage combining a productive period in British psychoanalysis, Khan's own intellectual gifts, his extensive researches in the literature, and his unique position as the patient of Donald Winnicott and the pretender to his throne Similarly, Speak of Me As I Am may be best read as the articulation of a potent mixture of