Katja Behling

Gebundenes Buch

Martha Freud

A Biography

Übersetzung: Glasgow, R. D. V.

Beschreibung

This is the first biography to be written about the life of Martha Freud, the wife of the father of psychoanalysis. This is the first biography to be written about the life of Martha Freud, the wife of the father of psychoanalysis. Fully illustrated with halftones of the Bernays and Freud Families.

Autor

Katja Behling was born in 1963. She studied for a PhD in Medicine and trained as a psychotherapist whilst also working as a medical journalist. She currently live in Hamburg and is the author of Zu Tisch bei Sigmund Freud (Vienna, 2000).

Produktdetails

• Key Concepts
• Verlag: Polity / Wiley & Sons
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 1A745633380
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 149mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 399g
• ISBN-13: 9780745633381
• ISBN-10: 0745633382
• Artikelnr.: 21535707

Rezensionen

"A remarkable story."
Prospect

"Behling evokes a Martha who is a far more substantial woman that the 'adored sweetheart in youth' and 'beloved wife in maturity' Freud apostrophized. This book stands alone or as worthy companion to any biography of Freud."
Lisa Appignanesi

"Finally a long overdue biography of Martha Freud gives us an authentic picture of the family life of her husband, Sigmund Freud. Speculations about Freud's personal life which range from the trivial to the salacious will need to shop short on the frontier of this excellent portrait of a highly ethical and decent human being and the hard work and the love it takes to establish and transmit these qualities. Martha Freud constructed a network of child- and husband-care and social concern whose inspiration and independence prohibits dismissive attitudes towards the traditional stereotype of the good hausfrau under which she has laboured. Behling's book gives us a picture of a particular woman which makes us rethink our general categories."
Juliet Mitchell, University of Cambridge