Anna Freud : A Biography.
Young-Bruehl, Elisabeth.
Place Published: New York, NY, U.S.A.:
Publisher: Summit Books,
Date Published: 1988.
Description: FIRST EDITION. 527 pages with index plus 16 pages black and white photos. The book is in VERY GOOD condition with owners inscription on front fly page. The dust jacket is in VERY GOOD condition with some minor shelfwear. JMVintage specializes in books, magazines, and other treasures related to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor..and other curious people. Dust jacket reads: Anna Freud is the extraordinary life of the founder of child analysis, who was Sigmund Freud's youngest daughter, colleague, confidante, and nurse. Written with exclusive access to Anna Freud's vast literary estate, it is the first full-scale biography of this remarkable figure. Born in the year to which her father, then a struggling Vienna physician, attributed his discovery of the meaning of dreams, Anna Freud grew up vying with psychoanalysis-and with five older siblings-for her father's attention. She would eventually become his most constant companion, his professional collaborator and ambassador to the psychoanalytic movement, and. after his death, the chief keeper of his memory and his science. Throughout her career, Anna Freud worked ceaselessly "for the cause," as her father had put it, marking her progress with volume after volume of seminal lectures and papers, among them, groundbreaking works on altruism, mother-child relationships, child development, psychic defense mechanisms, male homosexuality, and mourning. As a young teacher plagued by epic daydreams and undecided about whether to continue teaching, Anna Freud began a "training analysis" with her father. From Anna Freud's intensely personal poetry, letters, dreams, prose writings, and her first psychoanalytic paper, "Beating Fantasies and Daydreams:' Elisabeth Young- Bruehl brilliantly illuminates Anna's analysis by Sigmund Freud, and traces its influence on Freud's own thinking. She also chronicles the warm friendships which father and daughter shared with the exceptional women who were Anna Freud's mentors, Loe Kann Jones, Lou Andreas-Salome and Marie Bonaparte; as well as with August Aichhorn, Freud's protege who loved Anna Freud most of his life, and Max Eitingon, Freud's trusted sponsor and colleague, Anna's additional father-analyst. Dr. Young-Bruehl tells of the close partnership Anna Freud formed with Dorothy Burlingham, an American woman who, in bringing her children under the analytic care of Anna Freud, discovered her own vocation. Together the two women founded the experimental Jackson Nursery and, later, the Hampstead War Nursery in London. With particular insight, Dr. Young- Bruehl reveals the extraordinary complementarity that made them companions for fifty years. Anna Freud provides a penetrating exploration of the ties between Anna Freud's psychoanalytic work and her ongoing self-analysis; insight into Sigmund Freud's own intense loyalties and attachments and those of his inner circle; an evocation of the trials of the extended Freud family through two world wars; a narration of the bitter debates between Anna Freud and Melanie Klein over the direction of Freud's science; and a collective biogra- phy of the Viennese analysts who brought child analysis to England and America. A telling portrait of a woman devoted to her father, thoroughly committed to the growth and accessibility of psychoanalysis and to her own self-understanding, Anna Freud is certain to become a standard-setting biography.
Edition: First editionBinding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good in Very Good dj
ISBN: 067161696X
Book Id: 1091
Price: $8.50
