The Forgotten Analyst
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Hermine Hug-Hellmuth was an extremely gifted and intelligent woman, with a poetic mind that had been influenced by the German Romantic Movement. Her untimely murder at the age of fifty-four by her illegitimately born nephew Rolph has cast a shadow over her reputation. Her original contribution to understanding the mind of the child, her fine appreciation of the psychological suffering of the illegitimate child, and her challenge to Freud’s theory about female sexuality has been largely ignored in order to save the reputation of the history of psychoanalysis.
Her murder needs to be understood against the backdrop of the many tragedies she suffered. She lost her mother, Ludovika, when she was twelve, and her father, Hugo, deceived her over her illegitimately born half-sister Antonia. Hermine felt deeply unloved and could never trust anyone to get close to her. When Antonia died, leaving behind her nine-year-old illegitimately born son Rolph, Hermine was faced again with the stigma of illegitimacy and her father’s lie about Antonia. She was further humiliated by Antonia’s stipulation in her will that Rolph was not to be cared for by Hermine. The sisters had fallen out over Hermine’s analysis with self-styled psychoanalyst Isidor Sadger, who disliked Antonia, and Hermine publishing extensive observations about Rolph and his sexual behaviour. Rolph was a troubled child and his disrupted upbringing after his mother’s death was compounded by Hermine’s ambivalent behaviour towards him. In the end, her father’s lie, Antonia’s will, and the behaviour of her delinquent nephew rebounded upon her and the intergenerational trauma achieved its nemesis in her murder.
Prophecy Coles brings new insights to the life of the first child psychoanalyst. She reveals Hug-Hellmuth to be a woman before her time in her profound understanding of children, women’s sexuality and desires, the impact of a mother’s state of mind upon inter-uterine life, and the concept of “motherese”, the universal pre-verbal language of mothers and their newborn babies. Coles exposes Hug-Hellmuth’s genius, her flaws, and her inadequate care of her troubled nephew to create a rounded picture of a brilliant woman trying to find her own path while struggling with her own demons and the constraints of the time.
Prophecy Coles trained as a psychotherapist at the Lincoln Clinic but is now retired. She has always been interested in writing about people on the margin of interest to the psychoanalytic world, including siblings, The Importance of Sibling Relationships in Psychoanalysis (2003), forgotten ancestors, The Uninvited Guest from the Unremembered Past (2011), wet nurses and nannies, The Shadow of the Second Mother (2015), stepfamilies, Psychoanalytic and Psychotherapeutic Perspectives on Stepfamilies and Stepparenting (2018), and the illegitimate child, Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Illegitimacy, Adoption and Reproductive Technology (2021). Now she has written on the forgotten child psychoanalyst, Hermine Hug-Hellmuth, whose life was overshadowed by the hidden secret of her illegitimately born sister who had an illegitimate child, Hermine’s nephew. Hermine was the first Viennese child psychoanalyst and much admired by Freud. Her tragic end, when she was murdered by her illegitimately born nephew in 1924, has meant she has been ignored by historians of psychoanalysis until MacLean and Rappen (1991) translated much of her work and wrote a short biography of her.
Acknowledgements
About the author
Introduction
Chapter 1
The end and the beginning
Chapter 2
Vienna
Chapter 3
Educational reform
Chapter 4
Hermine’s psychoanalyst
Chapter 5
Hermine’s autobiographical writing
Chapter 6
A Young Girl’s Diary
Chapter 7
Antonia’s illegitimacy
Chapter 8
The Vienna Psychoanalytic Society
Chapter 9
Hermine’s early psychoanalytic writing
Chapter 10
War trauma
Chapter 11
Hermine and Rolph
Chapter 12
Hermine at the peak of her career
Chapter 13
The last year
Chapter 14
The end
References
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 13.2.2025 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Entwicklungspsychologie | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-80013-284-0 / 1800132840 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-80013-284-9 / 9781800132849 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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