“Sigmund Freud as a Jew”: A study in ambivalence and courage

Loewenberg, Peter

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“…Of the 300 000 Jews in Vienna in 1936, there were only 200 left when the Red Army entered it in 1945. In 1908, struggling with the issues raised by the pending break with Jung, Freud wrote: “After all, our Talmudic way of thinking cannot disappear just like that” 35 . The world in which Freud, Herzl and so many others found their inspiration was irretrievably lost, leaving a small affluent country of shallow pretensions with little to offer to the world except Sound of Music-style tourism and periodic reminders of its deeply ingrained bigotry.…”

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Soaring on the Wings of the Wind: Freud, Jews and Judaism

Kaplan

2009

Australas Psychiatry

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“…Sigmund Freud has a strong and lifelong attachment to his Jewish heritage and an equally powerful ambivalence towards it. Peter Loewenberg 1 …”

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Soaring on the Wings of the Wind: Freud, Jews and Judaism

Kaplan

2009

Australas Psychiatry

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“…Hammerschlag was Freud's Hebrew teacher and an observant Jew. Freud was not an observant Jew nor were any of his children (Bergmann, ; Loewenberg, ). He never repudiated his Jewishness and, of course, the Nazis regarded his family as dangerous Jews.…”

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“…In large measure this wish was actualized as Anna supplanted first Minna as Freud's intellectual companion and then Martha as head of the Freud household. The reference to Palestine as the “Promised Land” is another link to her identity as a Jewish person, a conflicted identity for the Freud family (Bergmann, ; Loewenberg, ). But then Anna's train of thought goes to Moses with whom her father was identified and the subject of his controversial last book.…”

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Anna Freud and the Holocaust: Mourning and survival guilt

Hartman¹

2014

The International Journal of Psychoanalysis

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This article explores the period of Anna Freud's life after she was informed of the deaths of her aunts in Nazi concentration camps during World War II. Understanding of this period may be enhanced by consideration of the role of the Holocaust in her complicated mourning process. A series of her dreams is re-examined from the point of view of survivor guilt and the complicated mourning of her father in the context of the Holocaust. It is argued that unconscious reproaches against her father led to an identification with him that included his 'decision' to leave his sisters in Vienna. Survivor guilt in relation to her aunts' murders is seen as one of the complicating factors in the mourning process. In addition the article discusses the possible role of this period, particularly her work with child concentration camp survivors, in her post-war writing. The noted duality in her work between innovation and conservatism is explored in terms of an outcome of the mourning process of this period. It is argued that her views on mourning, trauma, attachment, and the widening scope of indications for psychoanalysis were influenced by the outcome of her mourning process. Finally, an irony is noted in the fact that her attitude about altruism never changed despite the role of the altruism of others in her rescue from the Nazis.

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“…Obviously with the passing of time, and changing political and social circumstances in Vienna, Europe and even Palestine, the inevitable ambiguity, tensions and conflicts related to those aspects of Freud's cultural identity as an integrated liberal Austrian and central European Jew would articulate, shift and become more complicated. Just think of the advent of Nazism (Loewenberg, ; Cuddihy, ; Roberts, ; Schorske, , pp. 181–207; Rozenblit, , pp.…”

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Die brautbriefe: The Freud and Martha correspondence

Steiner¹

2013

The International Journal of Psychoanalysis

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Saved from confiscation and probable destruction by the Nazis after the occupation of Austria in 1938, the Brautbriefe are the letters that Sigmund Freud and Martha Bernays exchanged from June 1882 and May 1886, during the long and painful period of their engagement. The Brautbriefe are part of a wider collection of personal and official letters, manuscripts, and documents related to the life and work of Freud and his relatives, friends, colleagues and acquaintances. Freud and his family managed to bring the collection to London in 1938, together with a large and substantial part of Freud's library and precious collection of antiquities. For more than ten years the letters between Freud and Martha have remained carefully protected by Freud's family, held at 20 Maresfield Gardens, London NW3. *For J. Starobinski Int J Psychoanal (2013) 94:863-935

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“Sigmund Freud as a Jew”: A study in ambivalence and courage

Cited by 10 publications

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Soaring on the Wings of the Wind: Freud, Jews and Judaism

Soaring on the Wings of the Wind: Freud, Jews and Judaism

Anna Freud and the Holocaust: Mourning and survival guilt

Die brautbriefe: The Freud and Martha correspondence

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