La influencia de las hermanas Bernays en la vida de Freud

  1. Francisco Balbuena Rivera 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Huelva, España
Journal:
Norte de Salud Mental

ISSN: 1578-4940

Year of publication: 2022

Volume: 18

Issue: 66

Pages: 101-110

Type: Article

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Abstract

There has been a vast amount of writing and reflection about Sigmund Freud and the development of psychoanalysis over time, from both within and beyond the scientific community. Freud has been regarded through different prisms – the man, the original thinker, the sage clinician – and his role in the history of psychoanalysis, and more particularly in the development of the Freudian approach, has been hotly debated. Less has been said about those who accompanied him throughout his life’s work, his wife, his children and his family members, to name but the closest, whose lives were lived in the shadow of the colossus, the genius who taught us among other things how dream analysis can unlock the secrets of the unconscious and how to account for the workings of the human psyche through his model of the mind. From among those who supported him in his daily life and formed his innermost family circle, this study centres on his wife Martha and his sister-in-law Minna. The former, whom he married in 1886, bore him six children and provided the stability for him to work free from the demands of everyday chores, while the latter became the faithful confidante of his intellectual achievements and theoretical speculations, and [according to some] his lover. The aim is to offer as accurate as possible a portrait of Martha Bernays, and to scrutinize the evidence in support of the claim that there was a liaison between Freud and his sisterin-law Minna Bernays. We can thus gain an insight into the influence of the two sisters on the father of psychoanalysis as a man and researcher into the mind. In this respect, the edifice of psychoanalysis is revisited less from the perspective of its creator than of the two women who accompanied Freud throughout his life and throughout the difficult configuration and development of the psychoanalytic framework.

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