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Amalia Malka Nathansohn Freud ( Nathansohn; 18 August 1835 – 12 September 1930) was the mother of
Just as Amalia idolised her eldest son, so there is evidence that the latter in turn idealised his mother, whose domineering hold over his life he never fully analysed. He did however recount a railway journey with her at the age of 4 amongst his earliest memories and also recalled her instruction in German reading and writing. Late in life he would term the mother-son relationship "the most perfect, the most free from
Freud and his mother
Freud and his mother Amalia, in her apartment in Vienna, 5 May 1926
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Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud ( , ; born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating pathologies explained as originating in conflicts i ...
. She was born in Brody
Brody ( uk, Броди; russian: Броды, Brodï; pl, Brody; german: Brody; yi, בראָד, Brod) is a city in Zolochiv Raion of Lviv Oblast (province) of western Ukraine. It is located in the valley of the upper Styr River, approximately ...
, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria
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to Jacob Nathanson and Sarah Wilenz and later grew up in Odessa
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, where her mother came from (both cities located in modern-day Ukraine). She was married to Jacob Freud
Jacob Koloman Freud (1815–1896) was the father of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis.
Born in town of Tysmenytsia in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria (now in Ukraine), and from a Hasidic background though himself an enlightened J ...
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Amalia Freud died in Vienna
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at the age of 95 of tuberculosis
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Children
On 6 May 1856, when Freud was 20 years old, she gave birth to her first child, Sigmund Schlomo, a famousneurologist
Neurology (from el, νεῦρον (neûron), "string, nerve" and the suffix -logia, "study of") is the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of conditions and disease involving the brain, the spinal c ...
and the founder of psychoanalysis
PsychoanalysisFrom Greek: + . is a set of theories and therapeutic techniques"What is psychoanalysis? Of course, one is supposed to answer that it is many things — a theory, a research method, a therapy, a body of knowledge. In what might ...
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Including Sigmund, she had 8 children with her husband Jacob Freud
Jacob Koloman Freud (1815–1896) was the father of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis.
Born in town of Tysmenytsia in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria (now in Ukraine), and from a Hasidic background though himself an enlightened J ...
; however, her other children are not as renowned as their elder brother. They are enumerated below in the consecutive order of birth.
*Julius (born in April 1857, died in December that year)
*Anna (born on 31 December 1858, died on 11 March 1955)
*Regine Debora (Rosa) (born on 21 March 1860, deported to Treblinka
Treblinka () was an extermination camp, built and operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II. It was in a forest north-east of Warsaw, south of the village of Treblinka in what is now the Masovian Voivodeship. The cam ...
on 23 September 1942)
*Marie (Mitzi) (born on 22 March 1861, deported to Treblinka 23 September 1942)
*Esther Adolfine (Dolfi) (born on 23 July 1862 – died on 5 February 1943 in Theresienstadt
Theresienstadt Ghetto was established by the SS during World War II in the fortress town of Terezín, in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia ( German-occupied Czechoslovakia). Theresienstadt served as a waystation to the extermination ca ...
)
*Pauline Regine (Pauli) (born on 3 May 1864, deported to Treblinka on 23 September 1942)
*Alexander Gotthold Efraim (born on 19 April 1866, died on 23 April 1943)
Character
Amalia was considered by her grandchildren to be an intelligent, strong-willed, quick-tempered butegotistical
Egotism is defined as the drive to maintain and enhance favorable views of oneself and generally features an inflated opinion of one's personal features and importance distinguished by a person's amplified vision of one's self and self-importan ...
personality. Ernest Jones
Alfred Ernest Jones (1 January 1879 – 11 February 1958) was a Welsh neurologist and psychoanalyst. A lifelong friend and colleague of Sigmund Freud from their first meeting in 1908, he became his official biographer. Jones was the first En ...
saw her as lively and humorous, with a strong attachment to her eldest son whom she called "mein goldener Sigi".
Relationship with eldest son
Just as Amalia idolised her eldest son, so there is evidence that the latter in turn idealised his mother, whose domineering hold over his life he never fully analysed. He did however recount a railway journey with her at the age of 4 amongst his earliest memories and also recalled her instruction in German reading and writing. Late in life he would term the mother-son relationship "the most perfect, the most free from ambivalence Ambivalence is a state of having simultaneous conflicting reactions, beliefs, or feelings towards some object. Stated another way, ambivalence is the experience of having an attitude towards someone or something that contains both positively and neg ...
of all human relationships. A mother can transfer to her son the ambition she has been obliged to suppress in herself". His tendency to split off and repudiate hostile elements in the relationship would be repeated with significant figures in his life such as his fiancée and Wilhelm Fliess
Wilhelm Fliess (german: Wilhelm Fließ; 24 October 1858 – 13 October 1928) was a German otolaryngologist who practised in Berlin. He developed the pseudoscientific theory of human biorhythms and a possible nasogenital connection that have ...
.Richard Stevens, ''Sigmund Freud'' (2008) p. 144-6
See also
*Freud family
The family of Sigmund Freud, the pioneer of psychoanalysis, lived in Austria and Germany until the 1930s before emigrating to England, Canada, and the United States. Several of Freud's descendants and relatives have become well known in different f ...
References
External links
Freud and his mother
Freud and his mother Amalia, in her apartment in Vienna, 5 May 1926
{{DEFAULTSORT:Freud, Amalia 1835 births 1930 deaths People from Brody People from the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria Amalia Jews from Galicia (Eastern Europe) Austro-Hungarian Jews Ukrainian Jews Austrian people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent People from Vienna