Martha Freud - Behling, Katja
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Who was Martha Bernays, the Hamburg-born woman who, after a long and turbulent engagement and against the opposition of her mother, married the Viennese doctor Sigmund Freud and lived at his side for more than fifty years as wife and mother of six? How did she feel, coming from a traditional Jewish family but living in a household with no religious background? How did she cope with the challenge of being married to the man whose work revolutionized our ways of thinking about human sexuality? In this, the first biography of Martha Freud, Katja Behling portrays this remarkable woman, whose…mehr

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Who was Martha Bernays, the Hamburg-born woman who, after a long and turbulent engagement and against the opposition of her mother, married the Viennese doctor Sigmund Freud and lived at his side for more than fifty years as wife and mother of six? How did she feel, coming from a traditional Jewish family but living in a household with no religious background? How did she cope with the challenge of being married to the man whose work revolutionized our ways of thinking about human sexuality?
In this, the first biography of Martha Freud, Katja Behling portrays this remarkable woman, whose loyalty and steadfastness contributed in no small measure to the extraordinary success of psychoanalysis as it went from strength to strength and spread from Vienna to the four corners of the earth.
Autorenporträt
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).
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"A remarkable story."
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"Behling evokes a Martha who is a far more substantial womanthat the 'adored sweetheart in youth' and 'beloved wife inmaturity' Freud apostrophized. This book stands alone or as worthycompanion to any biography of Freud."
Lisa Appignanesi

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