Anna Freud | Anna Freud

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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...

Anna Freud | Anna Freud

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