![]() ![]() In Interpretation of Dreams, Anna was stitched among others-her siblings, Freud himself, their family friends-to form the basis, the very evidence, for the workings of the unconscious. A friend of Freud’s recalled, “Regardless of which bell one rang,” for apartment or for office, “invariably the other one opened.” To make his theories, Freud turned not just to his patients but to his own family and intimate circle. These spaces materially overlapped, with the salon adjoining a family bedroom, and the waiting room through the wall of the salon. His laboratory was not just the clinic but the home. The father of psychoanalysis was also a father of a family. As a father, Freud gave his daughter her privacy while, as a theorist, he made her an example. Unwitting, Anna had fed her father the strawberry dream. She was a little experiment, the terms of which were only now being clarified. Outside of the dream, now an adolescent, Anna may have suffered and affirmed the shock and delight of recognizing herself in the sentences written down as theory. ![]() Dreams are the one place where we can have what we want. By possessing it in her dream, Anna stayed asleep, and for Freud, this is the function of dreams. With evidence from his children’s utterances, he tells us that the child’s wish was for a nonsexual kind of forbidden fruit. Because her nurse had decided she was ill due to them, her dream wish was “thus retaliating … against this unhappy verdict.” Anna’s desire for wild strawberries, Freud writes, illuminates what he called “wish fulfilment” in dreams. ![]() She wanted the kind that caused her sickness and persisted in her infantile desire for more anyway. Asleep, she listed out, according to her father’s record, an extensive menu of foods, starting with her own name: “Anna Fweud, stawawbewwies, wild stawawbewwies, omblet, pudden!” Sigmund then interprets the dream quite straightforwardly as a double, split desire for strawberries in two forms (both cultivated and wild). Anna had been ill throughout the day, vomiting. Then, leafing through those hundreds of pages, Anna spotted her name.Īmong her brothers’ and sisters’ dreams, there appeared one from when she was just nineteen months young. Young Anna perhaps fingered the gold chain on her neck, neatened the severe middle part of her hair while reading his seemingly endless volume on dream interpretation. By 1910, Sigmund Freud had completed some forty articles and several of his famous books. In the home where its key texts were written, perched on a ladder, the fifteen-year-old Anna Freud began her study of psychoanalysis. ![]()
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