This newspaper or magazine clipping serves as a promotional or editorial excerpt for the book Freud's Women: Family, Patients, Followers by Lisa Appignanesi and John Forrester, published by Basic Books. The clipping highlights the central theme of the book—how women played a pivotal role in shaping Sigmund Freud’s life and the development of psychoanalysis. It suggests that while Freud is often regarded as a controversial figure in discussions about gender and psychology, the creation and evolution of psychoanalysis were deeply influenced by several key women.
The excerpt briefly profiles five such influential women:
Anna Freud – Freud’s daughter and a foundational figure in child psychoanalysis.
Lou Andreas-Salomé – A writer and intellectual associated with Freud, often portrayed as a muse or “femme fatale.”
Helene Deutsch – A socialist feminist and one of the first female psychoanalysts.
Princess Marie Bonaparte – A prominent advocate and financier of psychoanalysis in France.
“Anna O.” (Bertha Pappenheim) – A patient whose case with Freud's collaborator Josef Breuer helped launch the psychoanalytic method.
The headline, "The many women who gave birth to Freud," is metaphorical, emphasizing these women's intellectual and emotional contributions to Freud’s theories and legacy. The handwritten note "Basic Books" in the margin suggests the clipping was used for bibliographic or archival identification.
This item could be classified as an example of book publicity material, archival ephemera, or secondary source annotation related to the history of psychoanalysis.