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The Story of Sidonie C.: Freud's famous case of 'female homosexuality'

Editor : Ines Reider, Editor : Diana Voigt

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“The Story of Sidonie C. is more than the biography of a woman so complex she baffled Dr. Freud, it is also a biography of the twentieth
century, its political disasters and social changes.” - Andreas Brunner co-director of QWIEN (Center for Queer History, Vienna).

"You have such shrewd eyes. I would never want to have you as my enemy.” As “Sidonie C.” recalled many decades later, these were Sigmund Freud’s parting words upon ending his treatment of her in 1919 . Her story will appeal to a broad range of readers interested in general biography, twentieth-century history, queer and gender studies and culture studies. But especially for students of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic history, it offers a unique opportunity. It is rare for psychoanalysts to learn anything about their patients’ lives after they leave treatment, much less to read a full biography. The English speaking analytic audience is now in the fortunate position of being able to pursue the development of this intriguing woman and to draw their own conclusions regarding Freud’s and Lacan’s insights into her. - Jeanne Wolff-Bernstein is a practicing analyst in Vienna, a member of the Wiener Arbeitskreis fur Psychoanalyse (WAP) and of the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PIN C). She chairs the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna, and is on the faculty of the New York University Post-Doctoral Program for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy.