Freudian felines

NZ-based author/psychoanalyst Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson attempts to unravel the feline psyche in The Nine Emotional Lives of Cats: A Journey into the Feline Heart. The “witty, elusive and often enchanting” book challenges the place of dogs as man’s best friends with memorable scenes such as the author and two cats “jogging blissfully along the beach.” Masson, a former Sanskrit scholar and Freudian analyst at Toronto University, now resides in New Zealand with his wife and family (and cats).