 Said still endured political repercussions , such as the cancellation of a February 2001 invitation to Austria to give a lecture to the Freud Society . The President of the Freud Society justified withdrawing the invitation by explaining to Said that " the political situation in the Middle East , and its consequences " had rendered an accusation of anti @-@ Semitism a very serious matter , and that any such accusation " has become more dangerous " in the politics of Austria ; thus , the Freud Society cancelled their invitation to Said in order to " to avoid an internal clash " of opinions , about him , that might ideologically divide the Freud Society . In Culture and Resistance : Conversations with Edward Saïd , Said likened his political situation to the situation that Noam Chomsky has endured as a public intellectual : 
