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Living in the shadow of the Freud family / written and edited by Sophie Freud ; with contributions from Esti Freud ... [and others] ; with letters from Esti Freud ... [and others].

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Van Pelt Library DS135.A93 F735 2007
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Freud, Sophie, 1924-2022
Contributor:
Freud, Ernestine Drucker.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Freud, Ernestine Drucker.
Freud, Sophie, 1924-2022.
Freud, Sophie.
Freud, Sophie, 1924-.
Jews--Austria--Vienna--Biography.
Jews.
Jews, Austrian.
Speech therapists.
Austria--Vienna.
France.
Speech therapists--Biography.
Jews, Austrian--France--Biography.
Jewish refugees--France--Biography.
Jewish refugees.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
Holocaust survivors--United States--Biography.
Holocaust survivors.
United States.
Vienna (Austria)--Biography.
Vienna (Austria).
Freud family.
Genre:
Biographies.
Personal narratives.
Physical Description:
xxiv, 446 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Place of Publication:
Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, 2007.
Summary:
The pained yet proud autobiography of Sigmund Freud's daughter-in-law, Esti, who had a "problematic" relationship with the patriarch, roots this fascinating narrative of the famed family told by its members across the turbulent 20th century.
Contents:
Childhood memories
The (grand)parents next door
Early school years
Growing up
Climbing mountains
Austria's war soon turned into defeat
The other famous grandfather
Meeting Martin Freud
Letters to a prisoner of war
Joys and sorrows of married life
Young motherhood
Starting an independent life
Mother's poems
Grandfather Freud
Franz-Josephs-Kai 65
Rooms full of memories
Waiting for the apocalypse
Heroes of their own lives
Getting settled in Paris
Tante Janne
Liebstes Herzenspuckerl
Miraculous acceptance at the Lycée Jean de la Fontaine
Twelve years would pass before I met my child again
Baggage from Vienna
But we corresponded for some time
Sigmund Freud as marriage counselor
The summer before the dark
(Grand)parents Drucker redux
Une drôle de guerre
I had to do something to escape Hitler's clutches
Reading Balzac in Castillonès
Wartime in Nice
Insanity strikes
Mademoiselle Kronheim
From Marseille to Casablanca
The delay of the Serpapinto
Waiting in Casablanca
From Casablanca to Lisbon
Lisbon
On the Carvalho Arujo to America
Arrival in America
The new country
Neither the family nor Papa have the slightest intention of sending money
Radcliffe Summer 1943
It was very difficult at the beginning
Lectures for the United Jewish Appeal
Getting settled in New York City
It took me seven years to finish my Ph.D.
Neither of my children invited me to their weddings
At the New York Hospital
A case of false memory
Mrs. Sigmund Freud
Grandmother Freud's letters to Sophie and Paul
Disaster at Valløe
Those honorable brothers-in-law
Let me complain
I like to remember the good days in the Freud household
After my Ph.D., my life took a much smoother course
Friends at the cemetery
Tante Janne's tragedy
Martin's ghost
Working until her last breath
Mother's death without daughter and without son.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (page 439) and index.
ISBN:
0275994155
9780275994150
OCLC:
76820859

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