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Article: Psychoanalysis's favorite daughter
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- Jerusalem Post
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- December 3, 1995
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RUTH MASON
Jerusalem Post
12-03-1995
ONE hundred years ago today in Vienna, Martha Freud gave birth to a baby who would grow up to have a profound effect on children throughout the Western World.
Anna Freud, the youngest daughter of Martha and Sigmund Freud, grew up in a household where she had to compete for her father's attention not only with her siblings, mother and aunt, but with perhaps his favorite child of all, psychoanalysis.
She was born the same year her father discovered the meaning of dreams, which became the key to his development of psychoanalysis. She thought of herself and psychoanalysis, writes her biographer Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, as twins competing for her father's ...