Amalia Freud

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Amalia Nathansohn Freud (1835–1930) was the second (or possibly third) wife of Jacob Freud and mother of Sigmund Freud. She was born Amalia Nathansohn in Brody, Galicia, now in Ukraine.

Amalia was 21 years of age when she gave birth to Sigmund Freud (named Sigismund), upon whom she developed a powerful emotional dependence.

Amalia went on to give birth to seven more children - Julius, Anna, Rosa, Marie, Adolfine, Paula and Alexander. The children followed Sigmund's birth almost year after year: Julius in October 1857, Anna on December 31, 1858, Regine Debora (Rosa) on March 21, 1860, Maria (Mitzi) on March 22, 1861, Esther Adolfine (Dolfi) on July 23, 1862, Pauline Regine (Pauli) on May 3, 1864 and Alexander Gotthold Efraim on April 15 (or 19), 1866 ^[1]. Amalia had a strong personality, but was described by her grandson as, "a tornado."

Freud is quoted with saying:

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A mother is only brought unlimited satisfaction by her relationship to her son; this is altogether the most perfect, most free from ambivalence of all human relationships. A mother can transfer to her son the ambition she has been obliged to suppress in herself, and she can expect from him the satisfaction of all that has been left over in her of her masculinity complex.

”

Freud^[2]

Amalia Freud died at the age of 95 from tuberculosis. Sigmund Freud did not attend his mother's funeral.

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• Freud and his mother Amalia, in her apartment in Vienna, May 5, 1926

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