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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788097803321

Autore

Molnar Michael

Titolo

Looking through Freud's photos / / by Michael Molnar

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton, FL : , : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, , [2018]

©2014

ISBN

0-429-90160-7

0-367-10200-5

0-429-47683-3

1-78241-274-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (234 p.)

Collana

History of Psychoanalysis Series

Disciplina

150.1952

Soggetti

PSYCHOLOGY - Reference

Families

Family - psychology

Photographs - Psychological aspects

Photography - history

Psychoanalysis - history

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; SERIES EDITOR'S FOREWORD; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE At the historic corner window: 17.6.1897; CHAPTER TWO Trottoir roulant, 1900; CHAPTER THREE "... such a difficult task as our marriage..."; CHAPTER FOUR Mysteries of nature; CHAPTER FIVE Freud & Co.; CHAPTER SIX Portrait of an alien enemy; CHAPTER SEVEN "I'm staying there"; CHAPTER EIGHT "... the child should know..."; CHAPTER NINE Portrait of a refugee; CHAPTER TEN Her critical eye; NOTES; REFERENCES; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

A moody Freud posed against a background of holiday pictures pinned to a wall; or lurking at the very edge of a large family group; or lost in a crowd of nineteenth-century scientists. These snapshots or posed portraits not only tell stories, they also carry a specific emotional charge. The earlier essays in this book follow traces of Freud's early years through the evidence of such album photographs; the later



essays use them to reconstruct the stories of various family members. An unknown photo of his half-brother Emanuel initiates an investigation into the Manchester Freuds. An identity photo of his daughter Anna, and the document to which it is attached, throw light on the critical final days of her trip to England in 1914. A faded idyllic print of children playing evolves into a discussion of Ernst Freud's luck and childhood. The suicide of Anna's artist cousin, Tom Seidmann Freud, emerges from a snap of her infant daughter Angela.