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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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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Freud, Sophie, 1924-2022
- 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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