Amalia Nathansohn Freud

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Amalia Nathanson Freud, 1872

Amalia Nathansohn Freud (born on August 18, 1835 in Brody in Galicia , then Austria , died on September 12, 1930 in Vienna ) was Sigmund Freud's mother and the third wife of his father Jacob Freud.

Life

Amalia Nathansohn was born in Brody in Galicia , then Austrian Empire , now Ukraine , as the daughter of the businessman Jacob Nathanson and Sara Nathanson (née Wilenz). As the fourth of six children, she grew up for a few years in the then New-Russian port city of Odessa . The family later moved to Vienna with her and her two younger siblings. In 1855 she married Jacob Freud, who had two grown sons from his first marriage. A year later, at the age of 21, she gave birth to her first child, Sigismund Schlomo (Sigmund) . In total, she gave birth to eight children.

Amalia Freud is described as a little pious Jew. She did not observe the Jewish holidays , but celebrated Christmas and New Year with the family. Her eldest son Sigmund reported that he was “brought up without religion”.

Amalia Freud is also portrayed as a good-looking, “authoritarian person”. She is also described as lively, emotional, and impatient. She died at the age of 95 of complications from a leg disease, gangrene .

children

Memorial plaque for the daughter Marie in Berlin-Schöneberg (" With Freud in Berlin "), unveiled in 2005
  1. Sigismund Schlomo (Sigmund) (May 6, 1856 to September 23, 1939).
  2. Julius was born in April 1857 and died in December of the same year.
  3. Anna was born on December 31, 1858. She died on March 11, 1955.
  4. Regine Debora (Rosa), who was born on March 21, 1860, was deported to Treblinka on September 23, 1942 .
  5. Marie (Mitzi) was born on March 22nd, 1861, married the businessman Moritz Freud (a cousin), had four children with him and lived in Berlin until 1933. The family was deported to Treblinka on September 23, 1942, and Marie died there that same year.
  6. Esther Adolfine (Dolfi) was born on July 23, 1862 and died on February 5, 1943 in Theresienstadt .
  7. Pauline Regina (Pauli) was born on May 3, 1864 and was also deported to Treblinka on September 23, 1942.
  8. Alexander Gotthold Efraim was born on April 19, 1866 and died on April 23, 1943.

Relationship with Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud attributed his professional success to his mother's love, among other things: "If you have been your mother's undisputed darling, you retain that confidence of success for life, which often really leads to success." His image of women is been shaped by her. He is said to have said: "Above all, the man looks for the memory image of his mother, as it has dominated him since the beginning of his childhood."

Her ambition spurred her son Sigmund on. Sigmund Freud visited his mother regularly every Sunday morning and met with the rest of the family. He felt stressed by the family gatherings, which made him feel sick and uncomfortable in his stomach.

He felt obliged to his mother to fight against his palatal cancer and not to give up. After her death he was relieved in this sense and described “... a feeling of liberation, of being separated, which I believe I understand. I couldn't die while she was alive, and now I can. "

Afterlife

In the British television series Freud from 1984, Amalia Nathanson Freud was played by the actress Eliza Hunt . Brigitte Swoboda played her in the Austrian, biographical television film Der Junge Freud .

further reading

  • Deborah P. Margollis: Freud and his mother: preoedipal aspects of Freud's personality. Aronson, Northvale, NJ / London, ISBN 1-568-21448-0 .
  • Freud, Amalia , in: Élisabeth Roudinesco ; Michel Plon: Dictionary of Psychoanalysis: Names, Countries, Works, Terms . Translation from French. Vienna: Springer, 2004, ISBN 3-211-83748-5 , pp. 274-277

Web links

Commons : Amalia Nathansohn Freud  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bulletin of the Leo Baeck Institute: Volumes 5-6, 1962 Online , 1st hit
  2. ^ A b Eva Gesine Baur : Freud's Vienna: a search for traces , p. 163 online
  3. ↑ Elsa Hornfischer, David Hornfischer: Mother knew best: wit and wisdom from the moms of celebrities, p. 99 online
  4. ^ Franz Maciejewski: The Moses of Sigmund Freud: an uncanny brother , pp. 104-107, pp. 110-115, pp. 117-118 online
  5. ^ S. Freud: "Letter to the members of the B'nai B'rith Association", May 6, 1926.
  6. ↑ Michael Dieterich: Introduction to general psychotherapy and pastoral care , p. 145 online
  7. ^ Robert S. Wistrich : The Jews of Vienna in the age of Emperor Franz Joseph , p. 441 online
  8. ^ The psychoanalysis of Sigmund Freud: Concepts and Terms, p. 12 online
  9. ↑ Amalia Malka Freud-Nathanson . answer.com. Retrieved July 24, 2011.
  10. ^ DP Margolis: Freud and his Mother . In: Modern Psychoanalysis . 14, 1989, pp. 37-56. Retrieved July 24, 2011.
  11. ↑ Frank Lassner: Oedipus: At the roots of civilization. P. 171 Online
  12. ^ S. Freud: Letter to Sandor Ferenczi, September 16, 1930.
  13. ↑ Role description in the IMDb  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.imdb.de
personal data
SURNAME Freud, Amalia Nathansohn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Sigmund Freud's mother and third wife of Jacob Freud
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH Brody , Galicia
DATE OF DEATH September 12, 1930
Place of death Vienna