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Helene Deutsch a Psychoanalyst's Life Reports and Review Essays Atlantis Vol. 11 No. 2 Spring/Printemps 1986 Helene Deutsch A Psychoanalyst's Life Joanna B. Boehnert University of Guelph Helene Deutsch, perhaps best known to many Helene Rosenbach was born on October 9, of us today as Freud's "dutiful daughter" (Ches• 1884 in Przemysl (pronounced Chemish), Poland ter, 1972, p. 72), lived a long (97 years), active, to Wilhelm and Regina Rosenbach. She was the and influential life. A life, in fact, which is in third daughter and fourth child born into this direct contradiction to the "biology is destiny" Polish-Jewish family. Her lawyer father was an theory of normal female development formu• inspiration to her and as a child "... she often sat lated by Freud and supported (with modifica• in a chair under his desk" (p. 6) while he met tions) by Deutsch. In this biography, Paul Roa- clients and carried on his work. "The central zen gives a sense of some of the conflicts and guilt problem of Helene Deutsch's early life, as she that Deutsch experienced in her adult life at least later recalled it, focused around the character of partly because of the discrepancies between what her mother whom she wholeheartedly despised" she accepted as the norm for femininity and the (p. 7). Regina Fass Rosenbach, a woman very life she led. concerned with propriety, was reported by Helene to have hated her youngest child who was her Roazen, who started over two decades ago "... husband's favorite, originally because she was to meet and interview everyone living who had not a son. "As Helene remembered it her very ever known Sigmund Freud" (Roazen, 1973, p. existence was a provocation to her mother" (p. 9) 13), was authorized by Helene Deutsch when she who did beat her and her siblings as punishment was in her early nineties to write this biography. and when she was in a bad mood. Helene's oldest He was not only able to draw upon her pub• sister, Malvina - who was eleven when Helene lished professional works, but also upon a pub• was born - performed many maternal tasks for lished autobiography which she claimed in the her younger sister and "Helene later believed preface "... forms a supplement to the autobio• that her identification with Malvina had saved graphy hidden in my general work The Psy• her femininity" (p. 10). chology of Women" (Deutsch, 1973, p. 11). In addition he was given access to her personal By the time she was fourteen she had com• papers and letters and was very fortunate in pleted the schooling that was expected of girls at being able to spend hundreds of hours in inter• that time and her mother was particularly op• views with her. He was also aided by family posed to her seeking any higher education. In members, students, and colleagues who added her autobiography, Deutsch (1973) explained their impressions, memories, and interpretations that she was not willing "... to live the idle life of to the story. a debutante under my mother's tutelage until I married" (p. 80). The goal she set for herself was wrote, "although the certainity that we would to pass the university entrance examinations soon separate weighed heavily on me, the jour• which would give her her Abitur. In order to ney to the congress is one of the loveliest memo• secure her father's aid for continuing her educa• ries of my life (Deutsch, 1973, p. 98). She decided tion, she ran away twice and agreed to return the to take the final year of her medical studies in second time only on the condition that her father Munich and it was there that she was able to end sign a written contract to help her attain her the relationship with Lieberman "although an Abitur. undercurrent of grief and mourning about Lieb• erman persisted for the rest of Helene's life" (p. It was also when she was fourteen that she met 87). It was also in Munich in 1911 that she met Herman Lieberman, a prominent criminal law• Felix Deutsch, a Jewish physician from Vienna yer in Przemysl who was a devoted democratic just a few months older than she. With Felix she socialist. He was twenty-eight, married, and the felt a relief and freedom which she had not father of a child when they met at the home of known during the years of her relationship with Helene's sister Giezela. (She had recently mar• a married man. They married in 1912, "before ried a physician who had studied in Cracow with she began finally qualifying for her degree; Felix Lieberman.) Roazen claims that the relationship had wanted to be sure to have his last name on which began between Helene and Lieberman her diploma" (p. 97) which she received in 1913. was pursued by Helene "... to initiate her revenge against her mother, denying her any hope for She worked for a while in a hospital for men• family respectability" (p. 14). Lieberman did, tally retarded children before joining the staff of however, "awaken her politically and intellec• Wagner-Jauregg's Clinic for Psychiatry and Ner• tually and become her mentor, especially as she vous Diseases at the University of Vienna. She prepared to get the Abitur" (p. 33). remained there - with the exception of two months when she was working at Kraeplin's The active love affair between the two began institute in Munich in 1914- until the fall of 1918 in 1906 when she was twenty-two and he was when she began psychoanalysis with Freud. thirty-six. It was in that year also that she Because of the shortage of male doctors in received her Abitur and shortly thereafter em• Vienna during the First World War, she was barked upon her medical studies at the Univer• given responsibilities at the Clinic which other• sity of Vienna. Although she had thought about wise would have been denied her as a woman. studying law, Vienna did not allow women to (She became assistant in charge of the Women's pursue a legal education at that time. (Later Division.) In addition to her clinical work, she Helene and two other women successfully peti• also did some scientific writing. She quickly tioned a cabinet minister to open the study of became prominent in psychiatric circles in law to women.) During her years of study in Vienna. Vienna, Lieberman (who remained married to his wife Gustawa) was also there as a parliamen• In 1917 she successfully gave birth to a son, tary deputy representing Poland when Parlia• Martin (Freud's oldest son was also named Mar• ment was in session. Although they did not live tin) after having experienced several miscar• together, "he expected from her - and she comp• riages. She engaged a nurse shortly after Martin's lied - everything he would have from a wife birth to allow her to continue her work. In her according to the cultural standards of that time" autobiography she wrote "Paula [the nurse] (p. 71). During the summer of 1910, Helene practically insisted on taking upon herself the accompanied Lieberman to an international responsibilities of a good experienced mother .... socialist congress in Copenhagen. She later Her chief stipulation was that I abdicate a great part of my motherhood and become a sort of lyst from the Boston Society out of loyalty to mirage" (Deutsch, 1973, pp. 123-124). Although Felix who was relieved of his standing as train• Martin was a very wanted child, her career ing analyst because of failing health and memory. appears to have been her top priority and by her Helene's marriage to Felix lasted fifty-two years own standards as well as those of others, she and his death in 1964 "was particularly difficult neglected her son. The relationship between because she had so many guilt feelings about Martin and his father was much stronger than him" (p. 327). Roazen indicates that Helene had that between Martin and his mother. Roazem ambivalences about her marriage to Felix, but claims that Helene's bitterness toward her mother she eventually did choose life with him even was "almost matched by Martin's feelings toward though others continued to see signs of conflict her" (p. 328). between them. Apparently there was also a great deal of mutual emotional support. Helene en• The years from 1918 - when she was formally joyed a greater professional success than did elected to membership in the Vienna Psychoana• Felix who was an analyst as well as an internist. lytic Society and began her analysis with Freud This imbalance caused strain and resentment on -to 1935 when she left Vienna for America, were both sides. After Felix's death, Helene idealized busy and successful years for Helene. She ideal• her union with him, but the three men she men• ized Freud and identified very strongly with him. tions as having inspired and aided her in her A major disappointment for her was having to personal revolutions were her father, Lieber- halt her analysis with Freud in 1919 when he man, and Freud. gave her hour to the "Wolf-man." (In a New York Times Magazine interview when she was During her last years she was plagued by phys• 94 (Gordon, 1978), Deutsch claimed that the ical disabilities and the loneliness which comes only thing she would still like to do was to from having outlived most of her friends. She complete her analysis with Freud.) During these died in 1982 in the house in which she had lived years she became a successful analyst, headed the since 1936.
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