Anna Freud 2 Early Life Born in Vienna

Anna Freud

2 Early Life Born in Vienna Youngest Sigmund Minna of 6 & Martha & Josephine

Martha Bernays 3 Exhausted after Anna’s birth Never really around for Anna “Despotic” “She abided by no rules…she made the rules”

4 Primary Caretaker Josephine Cihlarz True mother figure to Anna Favorite Child Departure from Freud household

5 The Siblings Martin, Oliver, Ernst, Sophie, and Mathilde Isolated from them Sister Rivalry

6 Sigmund Freud “Insight such as this falls to one’s lot but once in a lifetime” Work 1 st, Children 2 nd, Anna 3 rd Mushroom picking Anna’s Naughtiness Lived in his shadow for many years

7 Early Schooling Started school (1901) Distaste for Academics Whiny Lisp Learned in Rote Home Linguist Fascinated by her father’s work

8 Secondary School Cottage Lyceum Uncertain future Psychoanalysis Sophie’s Wedding

9 “…you have run away like a child from many things of which a grown-up girl would not be afraid. One hardly has energy for serious interests if one is too zealous, too sensitive, and remains removed from one’s own life and nature; then one finds oneself troubled in the very things one wishes to take up. ” -Sigmund Freud, 1913

10 In a time of War Ernest Jones Teaching Apprenticeship Dream Journal work with Sigmund Interpretation of Dreams

11 Anna’s Teacher years Adored, praised Health Issues Started psychoanalysis (1918) alongside Freud

12 Child Psychoanalysis Beating Fantasies and Daydreams Teacher-Training Institute 1923 1922 1935 1925 Psychoanalytic Practice • Dorothy Burlingham Director-Training Institute

13 Dorothy Burlingham Moved to Vienna 1925 Rumors Collaboration Nursery

14 Published Work An Introduction to Psychoanalysis: Lectures for Child Analysts and Teachers Series of 4 total lectures An Introduction to the Technique of Child Analysis (1927) Her views on child development clashed with Melanie Klein

15 Melanie Klein Co-founder of child analysis Freudians vs. Kleinians No difference b/t child & adult analysis Superego

16 Mechanisms of Defence (1936) Criticized, yet respected The Ego Altruistic Surrender Identify with the Aggressor “Theory” on the Nazis

17 Anna & Freud Update (1930 s) Father complexresolved Peak of their relationship

18 Late 1930 s Antisemitism on the rise “Anna tries to make the present bearable by saying Freud - Sick & Somber Anna’s Busy life Anna’s Mindset Jackson Nursery (1937) with Dorothy that we now have a much needed rest between the exertions here and the tasks we face”

19 Pre-World War 2 Germany invades Austria Gestapo arrest, then question Anna Flee to London Focused on progress of child psychoanalysis New HQ=Wherever Freud is

20 London 20 Maresfield Gardens, Hampstead, London Burlinghamsneighbors Nursery re-opened Freud passes away

21 Hampstead Child Therapy Course and Clinic Anna & Dorothy Therapy, training, & research Not for experimental purposes* Published these studies Deemed a Success Later - Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families

22 Career in London Arguably her best work About Losing and Being Lost Normality and Pathology in Childhood (1965) Father’s death Erikson & others Lectures in America

23 Death Died-Age 86 1986 -Home transformed into Freud Museum

24 Thought Question 1 st Question: What are your thoughts about Anna putting her career ahead of her love life/sexuality?

25 Thought Question 2 nd question: Which aspect of Anna’s life do you think played a more important role in her career, her struggle/introspection into her sexuality or the struggle for her father’s approval (or neither)?