Portrait of an alien enemy
Molnar, M.; Freud, A.
Luzifer-Amor Zeitschrift Zur Geschichte der Psychoanalyse 18(35): 152-167
2005
ISSN/ISBN: 0933-3347 PMID: 16025601 Document Number: 589611
Official documents and photographs are forms of alienation yet they carry imprints of the inner life of their subjects. An identity paper and photograph of the eighteen-year-old Anna Freud (August 1914) serves as the basis for an investigation of various aspects of her identity at the time - firstly her position in England as an "alien enemy"; secondly her emotional and sexual predicament, brought to light primarily through her father's response to Ernest Jones' supposed advances; and finally her own sense of self as deduced from the expression in the portrait, backed up by the evidence of her poetry.