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take; there is only the sigh of relief that praiseworthy social activity
has been achieved.
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Both Freud and his daughter located the origin of post–
Oedipal beating fantasies in repression of the "love fantasy" a child
has for his or her father:
"All
the sexual drives were concentrated on
the first love object, the father ," as Anna Freud wrote of her female
patient . Even though Freud's "A Child Is Being Beaten" was his first
step toward revising his idea that girls and boys undergo parallel
developments until they are distinguished by their choices of objects ,
he did not reflect upon the role of the mother in his female patients'
lives . He did not note that a girl, as he later said, changes objects,
switches from mother-love to father-love. And the mother of the girl
Anna Freud studied is not so much as mentioned.
But in life, if not yet in theory, Freud did recognize that his
daughter needed a female figure in whom she could confide as she
could not with her own mother . For this role, Freud elected Lou
Andreas-Salome, a Russian-born novelist and essayist , companion
to Nietzsche and Rilke , who had been practicing since 1913 as a
psychoanalyst and who had written an article called"Anal and Sex–
ual" that Freud admired . Lou Andreas-Salome accepted Freud's in–
vitation to spend six weeks in Vienna at the end of 1921 , and then
Anna Freud made several long visits to her new friend and mentor's
home in Goettingen during 1922 and 1923 .
Neither in Vienna nor in "Loufried" was the quasi-analytic
relationship that developed between the two women a matter of on–
the-couch analysis; it was a discussion and and consultation relation–
ship-with , as often as not, Lou Andreas-Salome stretched out on a
divan meditating aloud and Anna Freud seated at her feet. Later in
her life, whenever the rumor reached her that Lou Andreas-Salome
had been her analyst, Anna Freud always claimed that the idea per–
sisted because people were scandalized by the thought that her father
had fllled that role. But her father, on the other hand, registered the
significance he thought Lou Andreas-Salome's presence had had by
playfully exchanging epistolary confidences with Lou about their
shared "Daughter-Anna." "Frau Lou ," exactly the same age as Mar–
tha Freud, was the mother-analyst.
Lou Andreas-Salome was not the sort of woman to question
Anna Freud's adoration of (or identification with) her father; on the
contrary , she promoted Anna Freud's desire to stay at home and
