The Housekeeper of a World-Shattering Theory
Jenny Diski: Mrs Freud, 23 March 2006
Martha Freud: A Biography
by Katja Behling, translated by R.D.V. Glasgow.
Polity, 206 pp., £25, January 2006,0 7456 3338 2 Show More
by Katja Behling, translated by R.D.V. Glasgow.
Polity, 206 pp., £25, January 2006,
“... mended. History tells of Mrs Freud – the wife – as a devoted domestic, and there is little in Katja Behling’s biography to suggest we adjust our view of her. The big idea seems to be that we must value her contribution to the development of psychoanalysis as the provider of a peaceful home life for its founder. The sine qua non of radical thought ... ”
