The granddaughter of Sigmund Freud, who fled the Nazi onslaught in Europe and later became a professor and social worker in the US, died on Friday. She was the granddaughter of Sigmund Freud.
According to her daughter, the cause was cancer.
Professor Freud devoted her career as a psychosociologist to protecting children and introducing feminism into the field of social work.
She was raised in an upper-middle-class Jewish ghetto in Vienna in which her parents led separate lives and her aunts and other relatives from all sides.
Professor Freud wrote in "Living in the Shadow of the Freud Family" that he was designated as a Freud.
She was able to survive her parents estrangement, bitter feuds with her brother, a rocky relationship with her mother, and 40 years of marriage until she divorced her husband.
She told The Boston Globe in 2002 that she was skeptical about many aspects of Freudian psychology. I don't think it's a good idea to indulge in such a high degree of pleasure.
Professor Freud and his family visited him every Sunday at his country villas or at his home in Vienna. They arrived at the theater at 12:45 p.m. for a 15-minute audience before lunch. Professor Freud kept an alarm clock at the front of her classroom to keep her on time.
Freud was not remembered by his granddaughter as warm. He would give her eight shillings each Sunday to buy her a ticket to the Burg theater. He performed an important role.
Professor Freud wrote in a journal article that his grandparents kept an eye on the household he had created. His presence was present.
Professor Freud considered many of his theories to be outdated after his grandfather died of cancer.
She wrote that he mirrored in his theories the belief that women were not the norm. He said that women are forever falling in love with their male therapists.
Professor Freud said that he disagreed with the man who said it didn't matter. The women go to another therapist.
In an interview for a Canadian television film, "Neighbours: Freud and Hitler in Vienna", she said that her grandfather was a false prophet. She said the ambition was to convince other men of the one and only truth they had found.
She said that he was never wrong.
The daughter of Sigmund Freud was born in Vienna. Jean Martin Freud was Sigmund Freud's oldest son and the director of Dr. Freud's Psychoanalytic Publishing House. Esti was a speech therapist who was Ernestine Freud's daughter.
Despite her parents feuding and the animosity between her and her brother, she tried to make the most of her childhood. She excelled as a student only when she was a teenager in Vienna's most progressive school.
Vienna welcomed Germany's annexation of Austria in March of 1938, despite the fact that it was seething with antisemitism. After Anna was taken into custody by the Gestapo, Dr. Freud was able to convince the family to leave. The outbreak of World War II resulted in his death at the age of 83.
In May 1938, her brother was taken by her father from Vienna. What in peacetime might have been an idyllic odyssey, but was instead a harrowing pursuit for sanctuary. An initial stop in Paris was followed by a bicycle trip to the French Riviera, a flight to Portugal, and a third-class crossing to the US.
Professor Freud said that when his brother heard of his criticism of one of his grandfathers theories, he told him that the Nazis would have made lampshades with your skin.
Four of Sigmund Freud's sisters were killed in the Holocaust. Walter joined the British Army and later served as a war crimes investigator and a chemist. In England, Martin Freud worked at a tobacco store.
The mother and daughter were homeless and penniless when they arrived in New York in 1941.
She was turned away from Hunter College because her mother had not established legal residency. Edward Bernays, the public relations pioneer who was a nephew of Sigmund Freud, arranged for her to be admitted to the school and pay her tuition. Her introductory English class was taught by a poet.
She married a Jew who had escaped from a concentration camp in the summer of 1945, after graduating with a degree in psychology. In France, they met.
The couple divorced in 1985. Professor Freud is survived by her daughter, a novelist, as well as her son, George, who teaches economics and psychology at Carnegie Mellon University, and another daughter, Dania Jekel, chief executive of the Asperger-Autism Network in Massachusetts.
Professor Freud received a masters degree in social work from Simmons College in 1948 and a PhD in social welfare from Brandeis in 1970.
She worked in clinics, mental hospitals and as an adoption specialist. She helped teachers deal with parents when she was at the university.
After earning her doctorate, she was hired as a professor at Simmons. She wrote that she found her true calling as soon as she started teaching.
She remembered that she said goodbye to the psychiatrists.
Professor Freud gave up her red motorbike to a student when she was in her 70's. She continued to teach after retiring.
She regularly exercised to ward off illness, but she was also a believer in fate.
One has only 5 percent of their freedom in how to control their life.
She would reflect on what she saw as inevitable natural and man-made catastrophes when she died.
Professor Freud said that he would leave the world with relief thinking of all that would have been spared him.
Maia Coleman reported.
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