Martha Freud A Biography
Martha Freud: A Biography by Katja Behling, published by Wiley on March 17, 2006, offers an insightful exploration of Martha Bernays, the wife of Sigmund Freud. This 224-page biography delves into her life as she navigated the complexities of her marriage to the influential doctor, highlighting her experiences as a mother and her role within a household that diverged from her traditional Jewish upbringing.
In this biography, readers will discover how Martha Freud’s loyalty and resilience played a significant part in the development of psychoanalysis. The narrative addresses her long engagement and the challenges she faced, including familial opposition and the societal expectations of her time. Behling’s portrayal provides a nuanced understanding of Martha’s contributions to the field of psychology and her personal journey alongside one of history’s most pivotal figures in the study of human sexuality.
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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.
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