Decades after his grandfather’s death from cancer in 1939, Professor Freud considered many of his fundamental theories, from “penis envy”...
Decades after his grandfather’s death from cancer in 1939, Professor Freud considered many of his fundamental theories, from “penis envy” to transference, to be outdated – “brilliant and debatable”, as she said so.
Although he often challenged the Victorian-era patriarchal view of female sexuality, she writes, “he reflected in his theories the belief that women were secondary and not the norm”. As for her conclusion that “women always fall in love with their male therapists,” she said, he sanitized attachments such as transference.
“He said it didn’t matter, women got over it afterwards,” Professor Freud said, “but I disagree. Women then go to another therapist to get over the one -the.
She escalated her criticism in an interview for a Canadian TV movie, “Neighbours: Freud and Hitler in Vienna” (2003), saying, “In my eyes, Adolf Hitler and my grandfather were false prophets of the 20th century. ” They shared, in his words, “an ambition to convince other men of the one and only truth upon which they had stumbled”.
“He could never be wrong,” she said.
Miriam Sophie Freud was born in Vienna on August 6, 1924. Her father, Jean Martin Freud (known as Martin), was the eldest son of Sigmund Freud and a lawyer who became the director of the psychoanalytic publishing house of the Dr Freud. His mother, Ernestine (Drucker) Freud, was a speech therapist known as Esti.
Sophie tried to make the most of her childhood, despite her parents’ bickering and the animosity between her and her older brother, Walter. It wasn’t until she was enrolled as a teenager in Vienna’s most progressive girls’ school, the Schwarzwaldschule, that she excelled as a student.
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