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Article: AN INTELLIGENT LOOK AT ANNA FREUD
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 6, 1988
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Elisabeth Young-Bruehl modestly describes herself as a mere
literary "courier," a conduit in writing about Anna Freud, the
eminent child psychoanalyst and daughter-colleague of Sigmund Freud.
Young-Bruehl was invited by the estate of Anna Freud, who died
in 1982, to write her life story. She was given access to a lode
of material for the construction of her psychoanalytic biography of
one of Sigmund Freud's most distinguished disciples: his devoted
daughter who became her father's successor.
She characterizes Anna Freud's literary estate as "an
archaeological site, keyed precisely to the day-by-day,
year-by-year living of her life." All of this material, including
eight volumes of ...