Aleksić, Branko
Emma Goldman and Marie Bonaparte listening to Freud (1896 and 1909)
- 2023.
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The Russian-born activist and anarchist Emma Goldman, legendary for her libertarian and feminist speeches, described in her memoirs, Living My Life, two lectures given by Freud: the first in Vienna, where she was in 1896, and the second at Clark University in 1909. We discover an “involuntary” contribution to the history of psychoanalysis. On the other hand, the Correspondance intégrale 1925–1939 between Freud and Marie Bonaparte (1882, Saint Cloud - 1962, Gassin), edited posthumously by Rémy Amoureux (2022), reveals that Freud was well aware that these missives would be scrutinized by “future biographers” of the princess—but not only by them.