Martha Freud : a biography / Katja Behling ; translated by R.D.V. Glasgow.

Translation of: Martha Freud : die Frau des Genies.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-201) and index.

TOC * List of Illustrations * Foreword by Anton W. Freud * Preface * Acknowledgements * HAMBURG * A Hamburg Childhood * The Move to Vienna * Isaac Bernays, Martha's Grandfather * Berman Bernays, Martha's Father * Emmeline Bernays, Martha's Mother * The Lovely Martha * Cupid's Arrow * Wandsbek * The Cocaine Episode: an Opportunity Missed * Paris * Eli Bernays, Martha's Brother * Till Death Us Do Part * VIENNA * Berggasse 19 * Minna Bernays, Martha's Sister * Sigmund and Martha Freud * Travel * Berlin * Friends * Martha as a Mother * The Freud Family * Martha's Children * Later Years: She was 'Normal' * Illnesses * LONDON * Emigration * Refuge in Hampstead * The Death of Her Husband * The Second World War * The Final Years * Martha's Death * Martha and Her Influence on Psychoanalysis * Martha Freud, an Epilogue * APPENDIX * Chronological Table * Notes * Bibliography * Index

Summary:
"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 someone whose work had had such far-reaching repercussions? In this important new biography of Martha Freud, Katja Behling portrays this remarkable woman, whose loyalty and steadfastness contributed in no small measure to the success of the phenomenon by the name of psychoanalysis as it went from strength to strength and spread from Vienna to the four corners of the earth."--BOOK JACKET.

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