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Correspondence
Sigmund Freud (Author), Anna Freud (Author), Nick Somers (Translated by)
9780745641492, Polity Press
Hardback, published 17 January 2014
400 pages
22.9 x 14.7 x 4.3 cm, 0.907 kg
"Perfectly collated, ordered, logged; every bit of background that could be found has been meticulously researched and impartially presented." "In this remarkable book, Anna also emerges as intelligent, and sometimes both feisty and capable, eschewing, without ever quite saying so, conventional choices made by so many of her contemporaries." "This compendious volume, expertly translated and annotated, provides a riveting insight into the relations between the two psychoanalysts in the Freud household - the Professor, himself, and Anna, the daughter he named his Antigone. Here the everyday Freud, the paterfamilias, chides and encourages Anna through what was in her own description a 'stupid, not reasonable' adolescence marked by a 'fervent overzealousness'. Later, they exchange views on congresses and psychoanalysts, as well as her lecture in Oxford, 'no disgrace for family'. Still later, it is Anna who does the caring. This exchange of letters and postcards, with ever illuminating notes, has the heft of an intimate biography. I couldn't put it down." "This excellent edition is certainly the most significant addition to the writing about Freud and psychoanalysis for some time. It is not only a compelling document of a very special father-daughter relationship and its ramifications, but also an essential contribution to the historical understanding of two of the most influential figures of the 20th century."
—The Independent
—Literary Review
—Lisa Appignanesi, Chair of the Freud Museum London and author of Mad, Bad and Sad
—Andreas Mayer, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris and author of Sites of the Unconscious: Hypnosis and the Emergence of the Psychoanalytic Setting
This book is the first publication of the complete correspondence of Sigmund Freud with his daughter Anna. The correspondence ranges over personal and family matters - social events, family holidays, births and deaths, health issues, war experiences, etc. - as well as professional matters, including the progress of Sigmund Freud’s and Anna Freud’s scientific works, their views on students and colleagues, and the international dissemination and publication of psychoanalytical writings.
The letters provide valuable insight into the work and family life of the founder of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, including the changes in his perception of women that were triggered by his relation with his daughter. They also shed fresh light on the development of Anna’s life and career - the early years in England, the period of her analysis with her own father and the last phase of her father’s illness and death, when Anna became the torch-bearer and protector of her father’s works, and eventually became the leading figure in the International Psychoanalytic Association.
Richly annotated with editorial comments, this unique volume of correspondence between Sigmund and Anna Freud is an invaluable source of historical documentation about the formation and development of psychoanalysis and the early decades of the psychoanalytic movement.
Introduction / Ingeborg Meyer-Palmedo 1905 1908 1910 1911 Silver wedding anniversary (1911) 1912 Summer holidays (1912) 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 Departure of the sons from Berggasse 19 (end of 1919) Sophie's premature death (1920) 1920 After the Hague Congress (September 1920) 1921 1922 1923 Freud and Anna in Rome (September 1923) Autumn (1923) 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 Summer-autumn 1928 and Berlin/Tegel (1928 30) 1929 1930 1932 1933 1935 1936 Emigration (1938) 1938 Epilogue
Part I. Correspondence:
1904
Part II. Appendixes: Travel Diary, Rome 1923
Notes by Anna on return from Rome Birthday present for Dorothy Burlingham
Vaccination certificates
List of places and dates
Part III. References
Subject Areas: Psychology [JM]
