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From the New York Times:
Sophie Freud, Critic of Her Grandfather’s Gospel, Dies at 97
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/03/science/sophie-freud-dead.html (behind paywall
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As a German-Jew, I found this article quite cathartic. There are German-Jews that I can be proud of, such as Felix Mendelssohn, Albert Einstein, and Dr. Ruth Westheimer.
Then there are German-Jews that I am profoundly ashamed of, such as Henry Kissinger, Sigmund Freud and Simon Wessely. (For the record, what Sigmund Freud did to patients was far worse than anything Simon Wessely ever did!)
Excerpt:
Sophie Freud, Critic of Her Grandfather’s Gospel, Dies at 97
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/03/science/sophie-freud-dead.html (behind paywall
As a German-Jew, I found this article quite cathartic. There are German-Jews that I can be proud of, such as Felix Mendelssohn, Albert Einstein, and Dr. Ruth Westheimer.
Then there are German-Jews that I am profoundly ashamed of, such as Henry Kissinger, Sigmund Freud and Simon Wessely. (For the record, what Sigmund Freud did to patients was far worse than anything Simon Wessely ever did!)
Excerpt:
Sigmund Freud’s last surviving grandchild, she fled the Nazis in Vienna, became a professor in America and argued that psychoanalysis was a “narcissistic indulgence.”
Sophie Freud, who fled the Nazi onslaught in Europe and escaped to the United States, where, as a professor and psychiatric social worker, she challenged the therapeutic foundation of her grandfather Sigmund’s theories of psychoanalysis, died on Friday at her home in Lincoln, Mass. The last surviving grandchild of Sigmund Freud, she was 97.
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Professor Freud, who taught psychology at Simmons College (now Simmons University) in Boston, devoted her career as a psychosociologist to the protection of children and to introducing feminism into the field of social work.
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“I’m very skeptical about much of psychoanalysis,” she told The Boston Globe in 2002. “I think it’s such a narcissistic indulgence that I cannot believe in it.”
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