Correspondence

This book is the first publication of the complete correspondence of Sigmund Freud with his daughter Anna. The correspondence ranges over personal and family matters - social events, family holidays, births and deaths, health issues, war experiences, etc. - as well as professional matters, including the progress of Sigmund Freud’s and Anna Freud’s scientific works, their views on students and colleagues, and the international dissemination and publication of psychoanalytical writings. The letters provide valuable insight into the work and family life of the founder of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, including the changes in his perception of women that were triggered by his relation with his daughter. They also shed fresh light on the development of Anna’s life and career - the early years in England, the period of her analysis with her own father and the last phase of her father’s illness and death, when Anna became the torch-bearer and protector of her father’s works, and eventually became the leading figure in the International Psychoanalytic Association. Richly annotated with editorial comments, this unique volume of correspondence between Sigmund and Anna Freud is an invaluable source of historical documentation about the formation and development of psychoanalysis and the early decades of the psychoanalytic movement.

Introduction / Ingeborg Meyer-Palmedo Part I. Correspondence: 1904 1905 1908 1910 1911 Silver wedding anniversary (1911) 1912 Summer holidays (1912) 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 Departure of the sons from Berggasse 19 (end of 1919) Sophie's premature death (1920) 1920 After the Hague Congress (September 1920) 1921 1922 1923 Freud and Anna in Rome (September 1923) Autumn (1923) 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 Summer-autumn 1928 and Berlin/Tegel (1928 30) 1929 1930 1932 1933 1935 1936 Emigration (1938) 1938 Epilogue Part II. Appendixes: Travel Diary, Rome 1923 Notes by Anna on return from Rome Birthday present for Dorothy Burlingham Vaccination certificates List of places and dates Part III. References