Sophie Freud

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Miriam Sophie Freud (born August 6, 1924 in Vienna ) is an Austrian-American psychologist , social pedagogue and social scientist as well as an author . She is a granddaughter of Sigmund Freud .

Life

Sophie Freud is the daughter of the lawyer Jean-Martin Freud , the eldest son of Sigmund Freud. Together with her mother Ernestine ("Esti") Freud , after Austria's annexation to the German Reich in November 1942 , she was able to emigrate via France to the USA , where she attended college. In 1946 she went to Boston , where she trained as a social worker, which she completed in 1948. She then worked as a social worker and lecturer.

In 1967 Freud began studying at the private Brandeis University in Waltham , which she completed with a doctorate in 1970 . She then worked as a lecturer at Simmons College in Boston , then from 1978 until her retirement in 1992 as a professor at the School of Social Work there . After her retirement, she continued teaching and researching and continues to teach, gives public lectures and participates in scientific conferences.

Freud often criticized psychoanalytic theories. In the mid-1970s, she was one of the first to write about a new view of female sexuality . In her scientific work, she underlined the importance that the environment exerts on human development, thus contrasting the emphasis on the inner world. Among other things, she dealt with the subjects of “ Lesbian Women”, “ Feminism ” and “Ethical Dilemmas in Social Work” as well as with postmodern approaches to training social workers. At the end of the 20th century she dealt with the "social construction of normality" and with "new identities for the new century".

She published numerous scientific articles in mostly English-language journals and anthologies , went on lecture tours and wrote about eighty reviews of psychological books. Her autobiography My three mothers and other passions , published in 1988 by NYU Press , has been translated into several languages; the German-language edition from 1989 is now available in several editions and editions. Her most recently published work In the Shadow of the Freud Family contains notes from her mother and describes her own critical examination of her grandfather Sigmund Freud, whom she considers to be far overrated and describes as one of the "false prophets of the 20th century".

Freud returned to Vienna for the first time in 1960 and has been visiting Austria regularly since the late 1980s ; In 1978 she was given back Austrian citizenship . She had been married to the emigrant Paul Löwenstein (also Loewenstein ) since 1945 , from whom she divorced in the 1980s. The couple have two daughters and a son, George Loewenstein, a professor of economics and psychology at Carnegie Mellon University . Sophie Freud has lived in Boston since 1946. After the divorce, she resumed her maiden name.

Publications, lectures, interviews (selection)

Books

  • In the shadow of the Freud family. My mother is living in the 20th century . Claassen-Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-546-00398-5 . ( Biography ; translation: Erica Fischer and Sophie Freud; book review at ORF.at )
  • My three mothers and other passions . New York University Press, New York 1988, ISBN 0-8147-2588-0 . (English; autobiography)
    • My three mothers and other passions . Translation of Brigitte Stein. Düsseldorf: Claassen, 1989 ISBN 3-546-42957-5

Lectures

Interviews

literature

  • Christoph Mentschl: The portrait: Sophie Freud . In: New newsletter from the Society for Exile Research , No. 28, December 2006 ISSN  0946-1957 pp. 19–20 ( exilforschung.de , PDF )
  • Doris Ingrisch: Freud, Sophie. In: Brigitta Keintzel, Ilse Korotin (ed.): Scientists in and from Austria. Life - work - work. Böhlau, Cologne 2002 ISBN 3-205-99467-1 , pp. 198-201.

Radio feature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sophie Freud, Ernestine Drucker-Freud: Living in the Shadow of the Freud Family . 1st edition. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2007, ISBN 978-0-275-99415-0 , pp. 446 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ↑ a b c Christoph Mentschl: Portrait: Sophie Freud. ( PDF ; 267 kB) In: New newsletter from the Society for Exile Research. Gesellschaft für Exilforschung, December 28, 2006, pp. 19-20 , accessed on August 25, 2010 .
  3. ↑ Doris Ingrisch: Freud, Sophie , 2002, p. 199
  4. ↑ Britta Weddeling: The deification is completely inappropriate . In: Die Zeit , No. 24/2006
  5. ^ Sophie Freud . In: Der Spiegel . No. 48 , 2003, p. 228 ( online ).
  6. ↑ (JAR): Freud to Freud. Walter von Baeyer Society for Ethics in Psychiatry (GEP), July 19, 2002, accessed on August 27, 2010 (translation, from, the, Spanish, by, k. Dieckhöfer): “Comments by Freud's granddaughter Dr. Sophie Freud at the 3rd World Congress for Psychotherapy in July 2002 in Vienna "
  7. ^ André Heller's human children: Sophie Freud. In: tv.orf.at. December 21, 2017. Retrieved December 22, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Freud, Sophie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Freud, Sophie Miriam (maiden name); Freud-Löwenstein, Sophie; Freud-Loewenstein, Sophie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-American psychologist and social scientist; Sigmund Freud's granddaughter
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna