Jacob Kolloman Freud (1 April 1815 – 23 October 1896)[1] was the father of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis.
Born in town of Tysmenytsia in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria (now in Ukraine),[2] and from a Hasidic background though himself an enlightened Jew of the Haskalah,[3] he mainly earned his living as a wool merchant.[4]
Families edit
Jacob Freud was the son of Schlomo Freud and Pepi, née Hoffmann.[5] Jacob Freud married three times, with two children coming from his first marriage, and eight children from his third marriage to Amalia Freud, twenty years his junior. His first wife was Sally, and his second wife was Rebecca.[citation needed] Jacob's eldest son from his first marriage became a father a year before Sigmund - the first son of Jacob's third marriage - was born; so that Sigmund was an uncle at birth, with his nephew John a constant (and older) playmate in his early years.[6] Ernest Jones speculates that the unusual family background may have prompted Sigmund - the eldest but third son - into an early interest in family dynamics.[7]
Character edit
By all accounts, Jacob Freud was a genial, unassuming character with a "Micawberish" streak of optimism:[8] Sigmund would write warmly of "his characteristic mixture of deep wisdom and fantastic lightheartedness".[9] Yet Jacob's meekness in the face of anti-Semitic bullying also disturbed Sigmund profoundly.[10] Much of the latter's ambition, his combativeness, and his subsequent quest for powerful father figures such as Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke and Josef Breuer,[11] may be traced back to his ambivalence about his own yielding and 'vague' father.[12]
See also edit
References edit
- ^ "Freud, Jakob Kolloman (or Kelemen or Kallamon) (1815-1896)". Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2023-11-18.
- ^ Scherer, Frank F. (January 2015). The Freudian Orient: Early Psychoanalysis, Anti-Semitic Challenge, and the Vicissitudes of Orientalist Discourse. Karnac Books. ISBN 9781782202967.
- ^ Peter Gay, Freud (1989) p. 599-600
- ^ Ernest Jones, The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud (964) p. 32
- ^ "Sigmund Freud's Birth Record ("Jakob Freud, son of Salomon Freud and Pepi née Hoffmann")". digi.archives.cz. Retrieved 2021-07-18.
- ^ Peter Gay, Freud (1989) p. 5-6
- ^ Ernest Jones, The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud (964) p. 37-40
- ^ Ernest Jones, The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud (964) p. 32
- ^ Peter Gay, Freud (1989) p. 88
- ^ Peter Gay, Freud (1989) p. 11-2
- ^ Peter Gay, Reading Freud (1990) p. 63-5
- ^ Peter Homans, Jung in Context (1979) p. 149
Further reading edit
- Marianne Krüll, Freud and his Father (1979)
- Leonard Shengold, 'Freud and Josef', in M. Kanzer ed, The Unconscious Today (1971)