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Anna von Lieben, ca.1865

Anna von Lieben (born Todesco ; born September 26, 1847 in Vienna ; † October 31, 1900 there ) became known as Sigmund Freud's patient Cäcilie M.

She was the daughter of Eduard Todesco (since 1869 Eduard Freiherr von Todesco) and his wife Sophie Gomperz, who was born in Brno . The wealth and influence of the Jewish Todesco family in what was then imperial Vienna was only just exceeded by the Viennese Rothschilds .

youth

She experienced the fate of the “golden cages” of relatives at an early age. In 1866, at the age of 18, she fled to her sister Franziska (called Fanny) in London , who on April 28, 1866 became the first wife of Heinrich von Worms (also Henry de Worms ), who was also very wealthy . This marriage was also later divorced. In London, however, Anna did not recover, but here she became very mentally ill.

husband

In 1868 Anna went back to Vienna at the insistence of her parents and on December 3, 1871, married Leopold von Lieben, twelve years her senior and wealthy (* May 7, 1835, † March 20, 1915), the ennobled President of the Vienna Stock Exchange Chamber. Soon after, the couple had five children. Ignatz Lieben was her father-in-law, Adolf Lieben her brother-in-law.

children

  • Ilse von Lieben (born February 13, 1873) married Wilhelm Leembruggen
  • Valerie von Lieben (born April 7, 1874) married the neurophysiologist Johann Paul Karplus (1866–1936). She died at the age of 63 in 1938, leaving behind her son Heinrich Karplus (born October 26, 1905).
  • Dr. phil. Ernst von Lieben (born May 19, 1875 in Ober-Döbling near Vienna, † July 31, 1970 in Vienna). His first marriage was on April 3, 1919, Maria Tumb (born April 3, 1895; † 1978; marriage separated on December 31, 1921), on May 9, 1923, his second marriage was Rosa Ender (born April 14, 1903; marriage separated November 11, 1925), in third marriage on February 25, 1926 in Vienna Sibylla Blei (born March 22, 1897 in Zurich, Switzerland; † March 14, 1962 in Costa da Caparica, Portugal), daughter of Franz Blei . - A daughter from the first marriage: Elinor Grünbaum (born June 28, 1921 in Vienna), married to Johannes Grünbaum (born February 13, 1917). As an industrialist and banker, he was a wealthy man.
  • Robert von Lieben (born September 5, 1878 in Vienna; † February 20, 1913 there) electrified the death co-love family palace in Vienna at the age of eleven and later invented the first electron tube with an amplifier effect. He married the castle actress Anny Schindler from Weikersdorf / Baden in Austria, who died in London in 1948. He was only 34 years old.
  • Henriette von Lieben (born May 5, 1882; † 1978) married Eduard Motesiczky von Kesselföklö (born September 27, 1866; † December 12, 1909). Henriette fled with her daughter Marie-Louise von Motesiczky (1906–1996; a well-known painter) to England as early as 1938, where they stayed until the end of their lives. Son Karl Motesiczky von Kesselföklö (1904–1943) stayed in Austria, participated in the resistance and was murdered in Auschwitz in 1943.

illness

The Lieben family grave in the Döblinger Friedhof , where Anna and Leopold von Lieben are also buried

The Todesco family's palace was built by their father from 1861 to 1865. The building has about 500 rooms and was or is full of art treasures. At first it was only inhabited by the families Todesco and Lieben. Anna met Sigmund Freud for the first time on the ground floor. The first floor was occupied by Leopold von Liebens family. Anna increasingly suffered from hysterical phenomena and was often confined to bed. She became addicted to morphine after giving birth to her children . Hugo von Hofmannsthal , a frequent visitor, describes them as animal, sensual, half crazy. She was gifted, loved the game of chess and was interested in mathematics.

Treatment by Sigmund Freud

In 1887 she met Sigmund Freud , who was ten years her junior and who looked after her until 1895. She went down in medical history as one of Sigmund Freud's first patients under the name Cäcilie M. He later referred to her as his teacher. Due to the relatively long and particularly intensive time of her treatment (almost continuous three-time meetings in a week for years) he was able to get to know the function of the psyche intensively. She lived in constant fear of being sent to an institution. Sigmund Freud developed his first experiences with the speech cure, with the then new element of free association .

Works

  • Anna von Lieben: Poems. As a reminder to your friends. Fromme, Vienna 1901.

literature

  • Evi Fuks, Gabriele Kohlbauer (ed.): Die Liebens - 150 years of history of a Viennese family, published on behalf of the Jewish Museum Vienna, Böhlau, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-205-77321-7 .
  • Karlheinz Rossbacher: literature and bourgeoisie. Böhlau, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-205-99497-3 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  • Peter Swales: Freud, his teacher, and the birth of psychoanalysis. In: Paul E. Stepansky (Ed.): Freud: Appraisals and reappraisals. The Analytic Press, New Jersey 1986, pp. 3-82.
  • Inge Scholz-Strasser: Bleeding from longing. In: Die Presse , April 29, 2006, accessed: May 11, 2001 ( online ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Georg Gaugusch , "Genealogy of the Lieben Family", in: Evi Fuks, Gabriele Kohlbauer (ed.): Die Liebens - 150 years of history of a Viennese family, published on behalf of the Jewish Museum Vienna, Böhlau, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-205 -77321-7 , p. 232
  2. ↑ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~prohel/names/misc/teomim.html
  3. ↑ THE UNKNOWN THOUSANDSASSA - FRANZ BLEI AND THE LABELING SWINDEL 1918 , accessed on March 3, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Dear, Anna von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Deathco, Anna (maiden name); M., Cäcilie (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian patient of Sigmund Freud
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH October 31, 1900
Place of death Vienna