Anna Freud (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Elisabeth Young-Bruehl
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Biography
- Time of Work: 1895-1982
- Setting: Vienna and London
- Principal Characters: Anna Freud, Sigmund Freud, Martha Bernays Freud, Minna Bernays, Lou Andreas-Salomé, Dorothy Tiffany Burlingham, Princess Marie Bonaparte, August Aichhorn, Ernest Jones, Melanie Klein
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Child rearing or parenting, Parents and children, Twentieth century, Psychology or psychologists, Fathers, Psychoanalysis or psychoanalysts, Psychotherapy or psychotherapists
- Locales: London, England, Vienna, Austria
Sigmund Freud, the founder of modern psychoanalysis, most popularly known for his theory of the Oedipus complex, required an Antigone to guide him in his declining years. After his death in 1939, his work needed a Vestal to safeguard it from misinterpretation and misrepresentation. Anna Freud became her father's “Vestal Antigone.” The awkwardness of the mixed metaphor adequately describes the difficulties she faced in both her personal and her professional life. It was she and not her mother, Martha Bernays Freud, who attended her father throughout his eleven-year struggle with the...
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