Amalia Freud
Amalia Freud | |
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| Born | Amalia Malka Nathansohn 18 August 1835 |
| Died | 12 September 1930 (aged 95) |
| Nationality | Jewish (Galician) |
| Known for | Being the mother of Sigmund Freud |
| Spouse(s) | Jacob Freud |
| Children | 8, including Sigmund Freud |
| Relatives | Ernst L. Freud (grandson) Anna Freud (granddaughter) |
Amalia Malka Nathansohn Freud[1] (18 August 1835 – 12 September 1930) was the third wife of Jacob Freud and mother of Sigmund Freud. She was born Amalia Nathansohn in Brody, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria and grew up in Odessa, Kherson Governorate where her mother came from (both cities located in modern-day Ukraine).
Amalia Freud died in Vienna, First Austrian Republic at the age of 95 because of tuberculosis.
Children[]
On 6 May 1856, when Freud was 20 years old, she gave birth to her first child, Sigmund Schlomo,[2] a famous neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, who would die on 23 September 1939.
Her other children are not as renowned as their elder brother. They are enumerated below in the consecutive order of birth.
- Julius (born in April 1857, died in December that year)
- Anna (born on 31 December 1858, died on 11 March 1955)
- Regine Debora (Rosa) (born on 21 March 1860, deported to Treblinka on 23 September 1942)
- Marie (Mitzi) (born on 22 March 1861, deported to Treblinka 23 September 1942)
- Esther Adolfine (Dolfi) (born on 23 July 1862 – died on 5 February 1943 in Theresienstadt)
- Pauline Regine (Pauli) (born on 3 May 1864, deported to Treblinka on 23 September 1942)
- Alexander Gotthold Efraim (born on 19 April 1866, died on 23 April 1943)[3]
Character[]
Amalia was considered by her grandchildren to be an intelligent, strong-willed, quick-tempered but egotistical personality.[4] Ernest Jones saw her as lively and humorous, with a strong attachment to her eldest son whom she called "mein goldener Sigi".[5]
Relationship with eldest son[]
Just as Amalia idolised her eldest son, so there is evidence that the latter in turn idealised his mother, whose domineering hold over his life he never fully analysed.[6] He did however recount a railway journey with her at the age of 4 amongst his earliest memories and also recalled her instruction in German reading and writing.[7] Late in life he would term the mother-son relationship "the most perfect, the most free from ambivalence of all human relationships. A mother can transfer to her son the ambition she has been obliged to suppress in herself".[8] His tendency to split off and repudiate hostile elements in the relationship would be repeated with significant figures in his life such as his fiancée and Wilhelm Fliess.[9]
See also[]
References[]
- ^ "Amalia Malka Nathansohn Freud (1835-1930) - Find..." www.findagrave.com. Retrieved 4 September 2020.
- ^ [1]
- ^ [2]
- ^ Peter Gay, Freud (1989) p. 504
- ^ Ernest Jones, The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud (1964) p. 32-3
- ^ Peter Gay, Freud (1989) p. 11 and p. 503-5
- ^ De Mijolla, Alain (2005). "Freud-Nathanson, Amalia Malka (1835-1930)". International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis: 629–630.
- ^ Sigmund Freud, New Introductory Lectures on psychoanalysis (1991) p. 168
- ^ Richard Stevens, Sigmund Freud (2008) p. 144-6
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