Person
Anna Freud
Pioneer of child analysis and ego psychology; Klein’s chief opponent in the Controversial Discussions.
Read more- Born
- 1895
- Died
- 1982
- Influenced
- Influenced by
- Sigmund Freud
analysed by
- Sigmund Freud 1918
disputed with
- Ernest Jones 1927 The dispute turned on child analysis: in May 1927 Jones's British Society held a symposium answering Anna Freud's views, with Jones siding with Melanie Klein; it foreshadowed the later Controversial Discussions.
- Melanie Klein 1927 In the 1927 Symposium on Child Analysis Klein answers Anna Freud's Introduction to the Technique of Child Analysis point by point. She rejects an educational, preparatory phase and holds that children develop a transference that can be analysed and an early super-ego.
- Melanie Klein 1942 The Controversial Discussions in the British Psychoanalytical Society, 1942–1944.
influenced
- René Spitz 1935 In Vienna in 1935–1936 Spitz was among the younger analysts gathered around Anna Freud and attended her seminar on child analysis.
- Heinz Hartmann 1939 Hartmann's 1939 paper starts from Anna Freud's account of the ego's defensive activity, which he calls the first exhaustive treatment of an important side of ego functioning, and draws its examples largely from her work.