EBOOK Hysterical
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Anna Freud&'s Story
There are several serviceable biographies about child psychoanalyst Anna Freud, who lived from 1895 to 1982. But as a fictional memoir, Hysterical is the first novel to reveal Anna&'s secrets-and two are blockbusters: 1) At around the time that the young Anna began having intense "e;friendships"e; with other women, her father Sigmund began psychoanalyzing her-dissecting her dreams, memories, and, most disturbingly, her sexual fantasies, and writing about them; 2) While Anna publicly supported her father&'s "e;wisdom"e; about lesbianism and remained his favorite family member, she enjoyed a monogamous relationship with Tiffany fortune heiress Dorothy Burlingham for fifty-four years. What happened during Sigmund&'s analysis of Anna? Was it the erotically charged echo chamber that Sigmund said analysis is? What effect did it have on Anna&'s burgeoning sexuality? On the woman she became? How did Anna love Dorothy, co-parent Dorothy&'s children, and become a guiding force for educators and humanitarians, all while coddling her father as he aged and died? And why in God&'s name did she become a psychoanalyst?Weaving a good story out of a pile of crazy facts, Hysterical lets Anna freely examine the forces that shaped her.
There are several serviceable biographies about child psychoanalyst Anna Freud, who lived from 1895 to 1982. But as a fictional memoir, Hysterical is the first novel to reveal Anna&'s secrets-and two are blockbusters: 1) At around the time that the young Anna began having intense "e;friendships"e; with other women, her father Sigmund began psychoanalyzing her-dissecting her dreams, memories, and, most disturbingly, her sexual fantasies, and writing about them; 2) While Anna publicly supported her father&'s "e;wisdom"e; about lesbianism and remained his favorite family member, she enjoyed a monogamous relationship with Tiffany fortune heiress Dorothy Burlingham for fifty-four years. What happened during Sigmund&'s analysis of Anna? Was it the erotically charged echo chamber that Sigmund said analysis is? What effect did it have on Anna&'s burgeoning sexuality? On the woman she became? How did Anna love Dorothy, co-parent Dorothy&'s children, and become a guiding force for educators and humanitarians, all while coddling her father as he aged and died? And why in God&'s name did she become a psychoanalyst?Weaving a good story out of a pile of crazy facts, Hysterical lets Anna freely examine the forces that shaped her.